How JD Vance Thinks About Power

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 3, 2024 | Matt Flegenheimer

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In September 2021, JD Vance offered two predictions about former President Donald J. Trump and one piece of advice.

Mr. Trump would run again in 2024, Mr. Vance said. He would win.

And when he did, Mr. Vance counseled, he needed the right people around him this time.

“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” Mr. Vance said on a podcast.

He continued.

“Then when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did,” Mr. Vance said, citing a (possibly apocryphal) quotation long attributed to America’s seventh president, “and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

In his U-turning path from anti-Trump author to MAGA-approved Ohio senator and running mate, Mr. Vance has developed a reputation for being ideologically pliable — open-minded, supporters say; core-less, critics counter.

But he has been unswerving in recent years in his assessment of how Republicans should carry themselves when they win: Use every available lever of state, even if that means testing the bounds of the constitutional system.

“We are in a late republican period,” Mr. Vance said in 2021, stressing the need to counter what he described as the political ruthlessness of the left. “If we’re going to push back against it, we have to get pretty wild, pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

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Article presented under topic "humor" to grant it the respect it deserves.

[Steely Tom]

Another of the MSM’s famous “we can see inside someone’s mind and tell you what’s going on there” stories.

[faucetman]

““Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” Mr. Vance said “

“But he has been unswerving in recent years in his assessment of how Republicans should carry themselves when they win: Use every available lever of state, even if that means testing the bounds of the constitutional system.

“We are in a late republican period,” Mr. Vance said in 2021, stressing the need to counter what he described as the political ruthlessness of the left. “If we’re going to push back against it, we have to get pretty wild, pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.””

Thank you NY Slimes for telling us what a GREAT pick JD was.

[Zuriel]

**Use every available lever of state, even if that means testing the bounds of the constitutional system.**

The Commie Dems already are masters at that.

And also at ignoring the Constitution whenever they want to.

[Jim W N]

“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,”

Wrong answer, Mr. Vance.

Right answer: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state and then BLOW UP the unconstitutional administrative/regulatory state and unconstitutional federal agencies.

Which is why Vivek should be VP and 2028 presumptive President to extend and expand MAGA.

[DesertRhino]

Clinton fired all the US attorneys on day one. Biden and Obama ignored court rulings as they pleased. The intelligence community and FBI ignore oversight hearings and do as they please.

Guess it’s a real bitch to think you are about to get back what you give out.

[ProgressingAmerica]

I find it incredibly troubling that Vance has no interest in abolishing administrative agencies that never should have existed in the first place.

[con-surf-ative]

George W. Bush did that as well, and his AG Alberto Gonzalez was investigated by congress for basing the firings on partisanship. Bush backed down.

Republicans always back down. Democrats never back down, and get total support from the media.

Republicans had better get some guts if they ever win another election. Otherwise it will just be more of the same spineless nonsense.