On the second night of the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Vice President JD Vance's keynote address was briefly interrupted by a protester bearing foreign flags — a moment that, though absent from the official broadcast, became a defining image of the evening. Vance responded not with silence but with an offer: a plane ticket abroad, paid for by the Vice President himself. The crowd's answering chant of 'USA' transformed a disruption into a ritual of belonging, revealing how deeply questions of national identity and loyalty animate the Republican coalition as midterm elections appro