A claim by Re[publican Party vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance that Donald Trump “took a bullet for democracy” drew no small measure of contempt on MSNBC Sunday morning. At a Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an attempt was made in July on the former president’s life resulting in him being grazed on the ear by a bullet, Vance ranted to the crowd, “First, they tried to silence him. When that didn’t work they tried to bankrupt him. When that didn’t work, they tried to jail him and, with all the hatred they have spewed at president Trump, it was only a matter of time before someb…