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J.D. Vance has called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and said he feared Trump could be “America’s Hitler.” Does this mean Vance wants to be a Himmler, a Goering, an OberFuhrer? Vance seems more like an opportunist than a true believer? I cannot wait for his next flip flop, maybe claiming he became addicted to cultural heroin because of illegal immigrants.
Vance himself is an unlikely avatar for the party’s populist wing. The author of the best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy about growing up in Appalachia, the Yale Law graduate moved to Silicon Valley to work for Peter Thiel and even signed a contract as a CNN contributor and wrote op-eds for the New York Times. In the Republican primary though, the son of a drug addicted mother blamed unfettered immigration and the lack of border security as the driver for the opioid epidemic, most vividly in a recent campaign ad that began with him pointing to the camera and asking “Are you a racist?” if you agreed with him.
For all his past skepticism, Vance scorned those who he said praised Trump before the attack on the Capitol and condemned him afterwards. “It’s crazy how many of the people who were saying nice things about him on television a week before the election were basically accusing him of being a traitor a week after January 6 and then had to completely flip flop … because it was obvious our voters are still with him.”
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From Skeptic to Superfan: J.D. Vance’s Turnabout on Trump
He once called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and said he feared he could be “America’s Hitler.” But over an eight-year transformation, the Ohio senator became one of his most ardent supporters.Vance himself is an unlikely avatar for the party’s populist wing. The author of the best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy about growing up in Appalachia, the Yale Law graduate moved to Silicon Valley to work for Peter Thiel and even signed a contract as a CNN contributor and wrote op-eds for the New York Times. In the Republican primary though, the son of a drug addicted mother blamed unfettered immigration and the lack of border security as the driver for the opioid epidemic, most vividly in a recent campaign ad that began with him pointing to the camera and asking “Are you a racist?” if you agreed with him.
For all his past skepticism, Vance scorned those who he said praised Trump before the attack on the Capitol and condemned him afterwards. “It’s crazy how many of the people who were saying nice things about him on television a week before the election were basically accusing him of being a traitor a week after January 6 and then had to completely flip flop … because it was obvious our voters are still with him.”
J.D. Vance Explains His Conversion to MAGA
Trump’s man in Ohio once called him “America’s Hitler,” but there’s an explanation.
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