Look, here's the worst news: because ... voters WANT THIS. Yes! From the Detroit Free Press: Quoting Mike Rogers, MI GOP Senate hopeful: "Pointing to Vance’s humble beginnings in southern Ohio, recalled in the 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy," a bestselling memoir by Vance, Rogers said the vice presidential pick "understands firsthand what th…
Look, here's the worst news: because ... voters WANT THIS. Yes! From the Detroit Free Press: Quoting Mike Rogers, MI GOP Senate hopeful: "Pointing to Vance’s humble beginnings in southern Ohio, recalled in the 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy," a bestselling memoir by Vance, Rogers said the vice presidential pick "understands firsthand what the high cost of groceries, gas, and rent do to a struggling working family." Vance, who served as a Marine and earned a law school degree from Yale before winning a U.S. Senate seat two years ago, is 39 years old. " And this: ""Congrats to J.D. Vance on joining the Trump ticket, " U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, added on X. "J.D. is a fighter, veteran, and understands the concerns of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. United, we’re going to Make America Great Once Again!" And immigration: People are afraid of the southern border issues and how it washes up in Michigan. People are likewise tired of the Gaza rhetoric. People -- voters -- WANT the simple solution. Withdraw from the world and go back to big trucks and coal-fired electric plants, in a world where Black people know their place and women make babies not decisions about nuclear warfare (ie, President Harris). Enough foreign melodrama. The insidious untruth is that pulling out of the world will make the US safer, will cut US taxes, will bring down prices. Well, I guess we'll see.
It will be interesting to see real MAGA response to Vance. Yale Law degree, married to the child of immigrants who also went to Yale for 2 degrees, worked with mega bucks finance, then US Senate. Looks like an "elite." Will they care he came from a poor, broken family?
MAGA wants people that articulate its real and imagined grievances, Vance fits that bill. They could care less about his pedigree, his wife or anything else. They want the US out of supporting Ukraine, Vance gives them that. They want reassurance that they were right in believing the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Vance does that. Etc., Etc.
But Vance has two "tribal IDs" that will (IMO) have bigger street weight in a fight: he's a Marine and he's Catholic. And Catholics are big players in the national stage these days. A Marine will know leadership as well as small arms and fire team tactics. He's a big card to play.
Evangelicals don’t believe Catholics are Christians.
The Church is less popular than it’s ever been.
His wife is not white. She has an actual job and wears shoes and isn’t pregnant and they probably order in more than she cooks. He just stopped wearing his wedding band because Trump doesn’t like them.
My generation (very, very, very old—God said “Let there be light” and we hit the switch old) respects military service because our fathers and grandfathers were in WWII or Korea. Since the end of the draft I don’t know if the military has much relevance to young people outside of those whose families include military. It just feels like from younger Boomers (I’m 66) down that sacrifice for the greater good is meaningless. It’s the only thing I respect about Vance.
Does the Evangelical wing like Catholics? I simply don't know about this aspect. He was a journalist. Except for basic training did he get out of the Green Zone?
He was a combat correspondent and deployed for six months. That sounds like an FOB job, but if he’s a combat vet that merits respect even from my Vance-hating self.
He certainly talks the Marine line: "Vance’s single chapter on his time in the Marines is peppered with similiar stories of moral and personal growth....
“When I joined the Marine Corps, I did so in part because I wasn’t ready for adulthood,” Vance writes. “I didn’t know how to balance a checkbook, much less how to complete the financial aid forms for college. Now I knew exactly what I wanted out of my life and how to get there.” (source https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jd-vance-marine-veteran/) As for Catholics and Ev. Protestants: they join hands against abortion and uppity women.
Look, here's the worst news: because ... voters WANT THIS. Yes! From the Detroit Free Press: Quoting Mike Rogers, MI GOP Senate hopeful: "Pointing to Vance’s humble beginnings in southern Ohio, recalled in the 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy," a bestselling memoir by Vance, Rogers said the vice presidential pick "understands firsthand what the high cost of groceries, gas, and rent do to a struggling working family." Vance, who served as a Marine and earned a law school degree from Yale before winning a U.S. Senate seat two years ago, is 39 years old. " And this: ""Congrats to J.D. Vance on joining the Trump ticket, " U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, added on X. "J.D. is a fighter, veteran, and understands the concerns of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. United, we’re going to Make America Great Once Again!" And immigration: People are afraid of the southern border issues and how it washes up in Michigan. People are likewise tired of the Gaza rhetoric. People -- voters -- WANT the simple solution. Withdraw from the world and go back to big trucks and coal-fired electric plants, in a world where Black people know their place and women make babies not decisions about nuclear warfare (ie, President Harris). Enough foreign melodrama. The insidious untruth is that pulling out of the world will make the US safer, will cut US taxes, will bring down prices. Well, I guess we'll see.
He is my Senator he doesn't understand many of us here
It will be interesting to see real MAGA response to Vance. Yale Law degree, married to the child of immigrants who also went to Yale for 2 degrees, worked with mega bucks finance, then US Senate. Looks like an "elite." Will they care he came from a poor, broken family?
MAGA wants people that articulate its real and imagined grievances, Vance fits that bill. They could care less about his pedigree, his wife or anything else. They want the US out of supporting Ukraine, Vance gives them that. They want reassurance that they were right in believing the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Vance does that. Etc., Etc.
But Vance has two "tribal IDs" that will (IMO) have bigger street weight in a fight: he's a Marine and he's Catholic. And Catholics are big players in the national stage these days. A Marine will know leadership as well as small arms and fire team tactics. He's a big card to play.
Evangelicals don’t believe Catholics are Christians.
The Church is less popular than it’s ever been.
His wife is not white. She has an actual job and wears shoes and isn’t pregnant and they probably order in more than she cooks. He just stopped wearing his wedding band because Trump doesn’t like them.
My generation (very, very, very old—God said “Let there be light” and we hit the switch old) respects military service because our fathers and grandfathers were in WWII or Korea. Since the end of the draft I don’t know if the military has much relevance to young people outside of those whose families include military. It just feels like from younger Boomers (I’m 66) down that sacrifice for the greater good is meaningless. It’s the only thing I respect about Vance.
He’s just revolting.
Does the Evangelical wing like Catholics? I simply don't know about this aspect. He was a journalist. Except for basic training did he get out of the Green Zone?
They do not. They don’t think they’re Christians.
He was a combat correspondent and deployed for six months. That sounds like an FOB job, but if he’s a combat vet that merits respect even from my Vance-hating self.
He certainly talks the Marine line: "Vance’s single chapter on his time in the Marines is peppered with similiar stories of moral and personal growth....
“When I joined the Marine Corps, I did so in part because I wasn’t ready for adulthood,” Vance writes. “I didn’t know how to balance a checkbook, much less how to complete the financial aid forms for college. Now I knew exactly what I wanted out of my life and how to get there.” (source https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jd-vance-marine-veteran/) As for Catholics and Ev. Protestants: they join hands against abortion and uppity women.