J.D. Vance Keeps Selling His Soul. He’s Got Plenty of Buyers.

At the outset of Christopher Marlowe’s late 16th-century play “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus,” the scholar at the center of the tale abandons all the learning he has mastered. Law, philosophy, medicine — none of these have fulfilled his boundless ambition. Instead, he turns to magic, making the fateful decision to sell his soul to the demon Mephistopheles, for what he “most desires” — “a world of profit and delight, /Of power, of honor.”

That brand of striving, so strong that it compels Faustus to sell what is most essential to him, must lie somewhere in the makeup of Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, who on Monday was offered and accepted the invitation to be Donald Trump’s running mate. What he has renounced in the process is in the public record for all to see.

Eight years ago, during the heated days of the 2016 Republican primary, Mr. Vance wrote that Mr. Trump’s policy proposals “range from immoral to absurd.” A few months later, he referred to Mr. Trump as “cultural heroin,” and called him “unfit for our nation’s highest office.” And memorably, in a text conversation with a former roommate, the future senator worried that Mr. Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”

After Monday’s announcement, of course, Mr. Vance distanced himself from those comments. Mr. Trump’s White House tenure, he said, had changed his mind, but it’s hard to take the senator entirely at his word.

Certainly, all politicians are ambitious — and many of them are cynical. But there is something particularly noxious about Mr. Vance’s posturing, which exceeds the run-of-the-mill Machiavellian self-interestedness that characterizes politics. The Faustian contract seems to have already been drawn up and signed.

If they’re a republican, I judge them by how much they’re hated by the Republican establishment.

When it comes to the media, it’s a little trickier. Many times they’ll attack a republican just so that conservative voters will rally to their defense.

This was the case with Dan Crenshaw and Ron DeSantis.....”if the media doesn’t like them, then they must be good”.

The first time I ever heard of Crenshaw was some late night host making fun of his eye patch before he even won his first election..... “Hey, he’s a war hero, don’t you mock him. He lost that eye fighting for his country. I don’t know much about this Crenshaw guy, but if the media is making fun of his eye patch, then I think I like him.”

I don’t think this is the case with Vance. I think he terrifies all the right people for all the right reasons. Just sayin’ that the media knows how to get us conservatives to rally behind somebody, and we have to be really cautious of their game.

The media went from hating on DeSantis to “Hey Trumpers, don’t you like this guy better?” faster than Reggie Miller could get off a jump shot. And looking back, I think the whole portrayal of Dubya as a village idiot, was just a way to get Republican voters to feel something for that soulless piece of evil vermin.

Here's the thing. I see a few people quoting these derogatory quotes made by JD Vance back in 2016, and in the interview yesterday with Dan Bongino, Donald Trump Jr., and Tucker Carlson, they asked Donald Trump Jr. about J.D. Vance, an he said:

DONALD TRUMP JR: "I love this story. And then, he actually started to say, 'never Trump', because, like, he didn't have any information, but he also was the guy who didn't just say 'Okay, well, I'm just gonna accept Trump now and roll with it' he was like: 'I was wrong. I did not think that the brash guy from New York was gonna fight for X-Y-Z, I didn't think he was going to, like...I was wrong. I bought into the Media narrative' and he became, like a champion of the 'America First', of the MAGA cause, and just articulates it so well...so, we became friends, like I was, but I was crushed I love him, I was like, he's a Never Trump? I just couldn't even believe it. But, but it wasn't that he just 'came to terms' with it, like, he was just, like, 'I was wrong.' and from that point on, he just started fighting for all of the things that we believe in, so I, you know, I was really passionate about that. I was so passionate about having a guy that's young, that can take that mantle of "America First", not go back to that Neo-Con bullshit, where, you know, we haven't been in a war in 3 minutes, let's make sure we spend four trillion dollars and mortgage our children's future, you know, ah, what the Hell. I don't want it to end in four years after my father's done, right? I want that to be Conservatism going forward, not a reversion back to the stuff that has failed us and doesn't represent the people across the country, but it plays great in The Swamp. It's a big deal."

You can see this exchange at the 14:08 mark of this linked video from Rumble: LINK: Bongino x Tucker x Don Jr. - LIVE at the RNC (July 16, 2024)

NOTE: I tried to be as accurate as I could in the transcription of that segment, but there may be some minor mistakes here and there.)

So, when I saw people posting those quotes over and over again here on Free Republic (I had never heard them before) I had to wonder, because nobody ever had the dates associated with those quotes. They made it all sound like he said them last month, and only just changed his tune to get a job in the administration. So, those quotes look like they were made before Trump was elected in 2016.

When Trump was running, right up to his nomination, I couldn't really decide how seriously to take him. I didn't know much about him. At the time, if someone had asked me, I would have said "Trump was a rich New York real estate guy with funny hair who is into casinos and UFC, who had a television show that featured him telling people "You're Fired!" And that would have been the extent of it. I hadn't watched television for several decades, wasn't into pop culture, so that was it. That was all I knew. But when he was nominated, I took to him because...well, I wasn't going to pull the lever for Hillary Clinton, right?

So, after he came into office, the thing that made me sit straight up in my ideological chair was on June 1, 2017, in a globally televised speech from the White House Rose Garden, he simply withdrew from The Paris Climate Accord. With my own ears and eyes, I saw an American President actually put America first, and said (this is an exact quote):

The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries...

You can read the amazing speech, all of it, right here:

LINK: President Trump withdraws from the Paris Climate Accord in Rose Garden speech (June 1, 2017)

Then, on December 6, 2017, he announced that we were going to move our Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I had heard that for years, and every President said they were going to do it, but nobody ever did, because the world would explode into flames, everyone was sure about that.

But Trump did it. And you know what? The world didn't burst into flames. There wasn't even a peep.

The overriding point I make is, there were (and still are) many people who were not sure who or what Trump really is. But if I am going to make a judgement, I will do it on actions, and not words. And while it is impossible to argue the statistics of what he did for the economy, it was those two things in particular that sold me.

And I think those same things might have sold J.D. Vance as well.

A writer at the NYT accuses anyone else of selling their soul?

Absurd nonsense.

There are a whole lot of “Conservatives” who doubted and mistrusted Trump. As they watch him in office they grew to like him and trust he was on their side

That a rational adult grown up response. Learn and gRow

Eddy at the NY Times however, is the perfect example of a infantile mind. He was indoctrinated into his political world view by either family or University and has mindless clung to that political bigotry despite the clear, overwhelming evidence of what a total disaster the Biden Regime has been for working class Americans.

Ed us a mindless political bigot and an intellectually infantile child.

Eddy. Grow up finally and start thinking for one time in your life. Stop mindlessly clinging to your “Blue no matter who” idiocy

1. I was Pres Trump when he came down the escalator. The country does not need career politicians or lawyers turned politician anymore.

One of the most disgusting things I saw during his term and the 2020 election was the number of ‘Republican’ politicians, at the local-state-federal levels, so complicit in the obvious fraud and their complete indifference to the Republican voters that put all of them in their respective positions.

2. I will jump for joy and do cartwheels and pop bottles if Vance is legit MAGA.

I’m at point where I don’t trust damn near anyone associated with Congress.

For me the tell will be how they handle all the illegals and who’s going to be responsible. If it’s Vance, I pray to God that he does a better than traitorous Pence did when he was supposed to deal with Fauci and Covid.

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