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  Well, folks, the Hug Heard Around the World is apparently the only story that matters this week. Forget wars, forget inflation, forget the ever-shrinking middle class. The only thing America seems capable of discussing right now is that long, slow, camera-perfect embrace between J.D. Vance and Erica Kirk — an embrace that’s somehow managed to outlast the national attention span itself.