Fwiw , I thought Trump was a fraud in 2016. I liked everything he said, it thought he was a NyC liberal playacting.
It was literally the incessant media attacks (and his actual policies and performance) that converted me from a skeptic to a hard core Trumpster.
So I get where Vance comes from on this.
I wanted Trump to quietly disappear after the midterm debacle of 2022.
But the Left just wouldn't leave the poor guy alone. Honestly, it were the baseless and merciless lawsuits that pushed me back into his corner. I loathed these people with every fibre of my being and did not want to see them win.
Now today, I can't think of anyone more ready to take the fight forward and crush the Left than Donald Trump and JD Vance. And after last Saturday, even more so.