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ROOKE: JD Vance Explains MAGA’s Appeal In A Way Liberals May Finally Understand
Daily Caller ^ | 3/24/25 | Mary Rooke

Posted on 03/24/2025 10:33:49 AM PDT by CFW

The D.C. establishment seems confused about why President Donald Trump and his administration are doing so well with American voters. Still, if they had been paying attention, Vice President JD Vance explained this months ago.

A post from a left-wing account came across my X feed over the weekend. It included a screenshot of an interview with Vance discussing how older Ohio voters understand national conservatism even if they don’t follow along online.

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“The left is committed to brain-dead Bidenism,” Vance said. “Biden’s entire political project is harmonizing various parts of the American left that don’t make any sense. And the American right, at the establishment level, is a series of dogmas that existed 40 years ago and are totally exhausted. And then there’s this thing called national conservatism,” he continued, “and it is vibrant and young people are excited about it.”

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“[I]f you look at people under the age of 25, every single group — white, nonwhite, male or female — is considerably more conservative than their millennial counterparts. And it even seems that Donald Trump narrowly won nonwhite 18-year-old men, which is not something that has ever happened in Democratic politics before,” said David Shor, head of data science with Blue Rose Research.

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“We love our country, but we don’t want to live in a sh*thole,” Vance added.

Shor admitted that Blue Rose Research found that “40 percent of the country identifies as conservative.” That’s across racial lines. This likely stems from the complete neglect of our middle class by our elected officials (both Republican and Democrat). For decades, Americans have watched their towns decimated by the ever-encroaching death march of globalism that stripped them of good-paying manufacturing jobs and placated their lack of purpose with pills and social media.

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KEYWORDS: conservatives; jdvance; maga; men
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"Vance talked about this during his recent address at the 2025 American Dynamism Summit, where he detailed a conversation he had with a tech CEO who said he wasn’t worried about the middle class losing their jobs and, with it, their purpose due to globalism because they would replace it with “digital, fully immersive gaming.”

His wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, apparently texted him from underneath the table, saying, “We have to get the hell out of here. These people are effing crazy.”"

1 posted on 03/24/2025 10:33:49 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

LOL!


2 posted on 03/24/2025 10:35:42 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: CFW

Here is my theory:

Trump constantly pokes the liberals with tweets, attacks etc triggering them to the point that they now reflexively oppose ANYTHING he is trying to do.

This in my opinion was a strategy, because once Trump had them in the oppose anything mindset. All he had to do was choose 80/20 issue, after 80/20 issue and have liberals take the 20% side because they are too enraged to see they are being played :)

And the more 20% support issues Trump forces liberals to take, the more liberals poll numbers fall towards 20%.


3 posted on 03/24/2025 10:39:14 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CFW

The Democratic Party Isn’t democrat tick and stands for every form of perversion, corruption and evil.


4 posted on 03/24/2025 10:40:59 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: CFW

I don’t want the left to understand.

I want them to self-destruct.


5 posted on 03/24/2025 10:45:03 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

I’ve got great news for you...


6 posted on 03/24/2025 10:48:55 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

To simplify for the benefit of the leftist drones: “MAGA is the revenge of the normies. We don’t want to pretend anymore that anything that anybody wants to do is ok and we have to like it.”


7 posted on 03/24/2025 10:51:29 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

yep, for me in particular it was how the left tried to force me to say “African American” vs “Black”.

I said... NOPE!!!!!!!!! that is stupid as shit, and I refuse to participate!


8 posted on 03/24/2025 10:55:06 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CFW
Republicans Against Trump on X had a long thread today on Vance's comment about Denmark "not being a good ally" in regards to Greenland. Hundreds of outraged posts, and not even one brought up China's interest in Greenland and Denmark's (possibly due to paid-off politicians) refusal to militarize their territory enough keep the CPC out. Every single poster pretended Trump and Vance are just rude, obnoxious colonialists who want to grab Greenland to loot its resources.

Plenty of evidence to deduce that Republicans Against Trump is yet another Soros-funded astroturf operation.

9 posted on 03/24/2025 10:58:11 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: TexasFreeper2009

And the 20 percent factions don’t overlap. On the left, some of these factions would exterminate the others if they got a chance.

The same thing can happen on the right, but the right has been considerably less vicious for decades now, largely because everyone on the right can at least recognize the totalitarian left as the great, overarching enemy. There is a vastly greater willingness on the right to recognize the legitimacy of dissent and accept that Massachusetts and Mississippi, New York and Nebraska, and California and Texas don’t have to be clones. The left is intolerant because the left is at some level is conscious of living a lie, and systematic liars cannot tolerate dissent and counterexamples.

People on the right are vastly more comfortable living in their own skins. Leftists are much unhappier, but they are not willing to renounce the lies.

And then there are the Libertarians, many of whom are happy to commit fratricide to demonstrate their ritual purity. Winning elections doesn’t much enter in to it. The Libertarians enerally max out at two percent because they cannot abide being tainted by allying with anyone who is less than 99 percent pure. Put three Libertarians in a room and you will have five new slinter groups by the end of the day. And they will hate each other.


10 posted on 03/24/2025 11:01:15 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: wildcard_redneck

I listened to Charlie Kirk’s podcast live this morning. He was talking about the younger generation, and especially young men, moving to the GOP.

He opined that young men didn’t like to take orders from women and further explained that is one reason why fathers are so important in young men’s lives.

Kirk said teen males especially didn’t like being told to sit down and shut up. Of course, to me that should be obvious, but some people (mostly on the left) didn’t recognize that fact. The left let bitchy dictatorial women take over their party so of course young men were going to flee.

Kirk was confident young men would carry Trump to a win in November because he spoke to them daily and saw the shift as it was happening. Neither the left nor the GOPe saw that shift.

Democrats just assumed they had captured the youth vote forever and the GOPe surrendered that voting block to the left making little effort to keep young men in the party. It took Trump and Vance to bring in those votes to the GOP.


11 posted on 03/24/2025 11:06:21 AM PDT by CFW
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To: TexasFreeper2009
the left tried to force me to say “African American” vs “Black”

Some people are still trying to get used to saying, "negro".

12 posted on 03/24/2025 11:07:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (👌)
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To: CFW

“The D.C. establishment seems confused about why President Donald Trump and his administration are doing so well with American voters.”

the Dems are just pretending to be confused: they know damn good and well why they’re tanking with voters, but they are unable to right their ship, given that what’s remaining of the Dem Party are the hard-core leftist Marxists, freeloaders, haters, and assorted freakazoids, snowflakes and nutters ...

the best they can come up with is “better messaging”, which mean “better lies”, but the Dems have already used up all of their lies, and almost no one believes them anymore ...


13 posted on 03/24/2025 11:18:06 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

“the best they can come up with is “better messaging”, which mean “better lies”, but the Dems have already used up all of their lies, and almost no one believes them anymore ...”


Their solution is just to yell a little louder with their old lies.

However, the left no longer has control of the media that most young people consume. It is infuriating them that Musk allows conservative messaging on X and they haven’t been able to do much about it. That is why they are so upset with Elon Musk.


14 posted on 03/24/2025 11:21:03 AM PDT by CFW
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Trump constantly pokes the liberals with tweets, attacks etc triggering them to the point that they now reflexively oppose ANYTHING he is trying to do. This in my opinion was a strategy, because once Trump had them in the oppose anything mindset. All he had to do was choose 80/20 issue, after 80/20 issue and have liberals take the 20% side because they are too enraged to see they are being played :) And the more 20% support issues Trump forces liberals to take, the more liberals poll numbers fall towards 20%.”

that’s EXACTLY what President Trump is doing, and the fake stream media continues to fall for it too, constantly screaming about the 20% side, thus believing that they are somehow helping attack President Trump, when in reality all they are really doing is cementing the rage and irrationality of the 20%, while simultaneously causing the 80% to think, “Are you kidding me?” ...

the amazing thing is that after over 9 years of this, the fake stream media continues to fall for President Trump’s trolling and have yet to understand that President Trump’s power and popularity grow in direct proportion to the amount and viciousness of their attacks ....


15 posted on 03/24/2025 11:29:01 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: wildcard_redneck

At the risk of sounding overly religious, I’ll present the following. Sin has a political following. It always has. When Christians first said that adultery was wrong, the Roman adulterers did not like what they were hearing. It continues today.

Throw in abortion and LGBQT+. Slavery, ditto. How about spending other people’s money through tax and spend? It has some resemblance to theft. Consider legalizing theft of up to $1,000. There is the violence of BLM, Antifa, CEO murder, attempted assassination of President Trump, rioting, looting, vandalism. These are all sins committed and justified by Democrats.

Of course, a public display of the Ten Commandments is a no-no. The same for the Pledge of Allegiance “under God.”

The Democratic party is a party of factions. Many, if not all, are related to sin. If you want to push back against godly language, belief, and behavior, vote Democrat.


16 posted on 03/24/2025 11:31:03 AM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: sphinx

“Put three Libertarians in a room and you will have five new splinter groups by the end of the day. And they will hate each other.”

best description of “libertarians” i’ve very heard!

[btw, for some reason any time i see the word “libertarian”, the word “fruitarian” pops into my head.”


17 posted on 03/24/2025 11:39:07 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: CFW

“However, the left no longer has control of the media that most young people consume. It is infuriating them that Musk allows conservative messaging on X and they haven’t been able to do much about it. That is why they are so upset with Elon Musk.”

indeed ...


18 posted on 03/24/2025 11:42:20 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: rlmorel

But they DO understand - they just don’t LIKE!


19 posted on 03/24/2025 11:46:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: sphinx
And then there are the Libertarians, many of whom are happy to commit fratricide to demonstrate their ritual purity. Winning elections doesn’t much enter in to it. The Libertarians enerally max out at two percent because they cannot abide being tainted by allying with anyone who is less than 99 percent pure. Put three Libertarians in a room and you will have five new slinter groups by the end of the day. And they will hate each other.

Which makes me wonder why you are even mentioning them?   Remember that as the last choice on every Libertarian ballot there is, None Of The Above (NOTA).   That is the truth, they are always going nowhere.

20 posted on 03/24/2025 11:52:14 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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