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Posted on 07/11/2026 8:22:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.
That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.
In Vance's interview last week with The Daily Wire, he sounded much more like a Mitt Romney, big-government RINO than a Trump or Ronald Reagan.
Decide for yourself. Here are some of Vance's misguided views on economics and the future of the GOP:
"Milton Friedman's ideas made more sense in the 1980s because they were being advocated in a country that still had a very rich and powerful institutional Christianity."
"If you look at modern Britain and the result of Margaret Thatcher's policies, you would say that her policies actually got Britain further away from that ideal and not closer to that ideal."
"I think that meritocracy can steal from us a sense of what really, really matters."
"When Donald Trump ran for president the first time, the idea of tariffs on imported goods was a heresy in the GOP. It is now the baseline position that virtually every Republican politician adopts."
"If you turn economic development (i.e., prosperity) into a sort of idol, then you end up sacrificing a lot of the things that matter most."
"American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman. I think that's obviously a good thing."
This is anti-free-market, big government gobbledygook. Here's just one "laissez-faire economic truism" that JD should learn: Individuals can always spend their own money better than the government.
Hamilton had his gifts, for sure, but Hamilton believed in a far more powerful federal government than Thomas Jefferson, who correctly wanted a small federal government, and the states to have most of the governing power.
That's why we have the Ninth and 10th Amendments -- power resides with the states and the people. Do Republicans want a new era of even bigger and more intrusive government?
Who disparages Friedman -- Reagan's favorite economist and perhaps the most ardent spokesman for free markets since Adam Smith? Friedman was the leading spokesman for school choice, limited government and personal freedom. One of his most famous books was called "Free to Choose." Who criticizes Thatcher?
We already have a big government party in the Democrats that is increasingly leaning toward socialism. The GOP must be the party of a lean and efficient and less burdensome federal government. If Vance doesn't believe in those core principles of freedom and prosperity, maybe he's in the wrong party.
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Stephen Moore was also vociferously against Trump in 2016 so who GAF what he thinks?
TDS’ing BS.
Considered opinions from Vance fanboyz…:^)
JD Vance is an empty suit. He as the VP could have produced some legislation, like recission packages, and real regulation relief. no nothing.
Rubio is leading as the next GOP candidate for Prez,,, According to Polls. You can attack me but not the Polls...
Rubio is smarter, saner, and wiser. He’ll be the nominee.
I want Rubio as our next president.
Vance didn’t say anything particularly controversial, unless you’re one of the minions who can’t tolerate any deviation from the party line.
40, 50, 60 years of anti-government talk and movement conservatives didn’t make government smaller.
They aren’t going to either.
Vance gives some pushback to that pointless chatter, but he’s not going to make government any bigger.
I agree with some of the concerns expressed, but we need some context here. As for tariffs, the obvious question is always: If tariffs are so “ruinous” for an economy, why do all of the major economic players in the world have their own patchwork of protective tariffs? How is it allegedly terrible for the U.S. to use them, but no problem for everyone else? “Free trade” is great in concept, but it doesn’t exist in reality. When the rest of your competitors are blocking your imports, but trying to flood your domestic market with theirs, something is going on and it’s definitely not “free trade.”
When has any VP ever gotten anything through Congress?
Nobody listens to Vice Presidents.
When has anybody gotten anything through this current Congress?
Without 60 votes and without a more active leadership there's little Vance could have done.
He definitely doesn't sound like Reagan, but does sound quite a bit like Trump.
Vance is a good debater. But doesn’t seem particularly intelligent. And frequently goes off half-cocked without thinking deeply. Rabio has aged like fine wine.
Rubio would make a great President. The guy is scary smart and would destroy Vance or ANY Democrat in a debate.
“JD Vance is an empty suit. He as the VP could have produced some legislation, like recission packages, and real regulation relief. no nothing.”
You obviously know nothing about the position of the Vice-President. The only power a Vice-President has is to be the President of the Senate and to cast the tie breaker vote in a tie vote.Those are the positions only legislative powers.
“Rubio would make a great President. “
Wow - what a few years make . I’d love to go back and read what the majority of Freepers were saying about Little Marco back in 2016 when he was running against Trump . Now he is the savior ? LOL !
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