The GOP vice-presidential nominee came to prominence by claiming that people live in poverty because they made bad decisions, rather than by dint of the capitalism game played against them.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, , arrives on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention Monday in Milwaukee.his preferred spelling — Vance at the Republican National Convention on Monday, the new vice presidential candidate was called “a living embodiment of the American dream.” As the Milwaukee crowd chanted his name, Vance was presented to delegates as someone who “has never forgotten the working people of our country, and he never will.
His message was easily digested because it’s convenient to believe people live in poverty because they made bad decisions, rather than the idea that they’re there by dint of the capitalism game already being played against them. I don’t think Vance much wanted that role. I think he had his eye on something bigger, but he dutifully tried to explain his demographic origins as best he could. His fellows’ support of Trump seemed to baffle him. Early on, he said Trump was “
He’s been called a “craven shape-shifter,” “disgraceful,” “No. 1 saprophyte” . In a May letter, one writer asked Trump to choose Vance as his running mate so Ohio could be less one “lying, bootlicking, butt kissing, weak-willed, integrity lacking, sickening obsequious sycophant.” Try saying that in one breath.
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