Posted on 07/20/2024 7:56:50 AM PDT by karpov
On the surface, this GOP convention is the most ebullient and unified in decades. Beneath it, many elected officials are deeply uneasy.
The source of that agitation is Donald Trump’s running mate. At a glance, Mr. Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance makes sense, as he appears to be a prototype of Mr. Trump. Protectionist. Passionate. America First.
But he isn’t Mr. Trump—not at all—in ways that are hugely consequential for the conservative movement and its future. In choosing Mr. Vance now, Mr. Trump sets him up for 2028, which means a monumental internal fight is coming. We’ll soon find out how much control Mr. Trump really has—and intends to keep—over his party.
To listen to the convention speeches and the on-the-record GOP chatter, Mr. Vance is a perfect running mate for a candidate laser-focused on winning this election with working-class votes. He’s right there with Mr. Trump on tariffs and the border. He talks passionately on inflation. He connects to the workingman, whom he delights by skewering the media and the Biden administration.
That’s where the similarities end. Mr. Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was mostly a social and cultural critique. His later political opinions initially sounded distinctly Democratic. He reveled for a time as a Never Trumper, with a 2016 essay in the Atlantic, “Opioid of the Masses,” in which he explained, “Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis.” He now says he was wrong about Mr. Trump, but his record since joining the Senate last year suggests he still rejects much of Mr. Trump’s economic agenda.
Mr. Vance believes government is needed to right the problems in his hometown. He’s OK with raising the minimum wage to $20. (Even Bernie Sanders is asking for only $17.)
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Try again ash hole this isn’t working.
Vance was largely raised by his grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” who believed in Jesus and liked Billy Graham but didn’t like what she called “organized religion.” When he was about 10, Vance had a moment of doubt.
“Mamaw, does God love us?” he asked his grandmother after a major disappointment, mindful of the fractured family life he and his half-sister were growing up in.
The question caused his grandmother to cry.
he describes another instance when Mamaw accidentally went the wrong way on a three-lane interstate before making a U-turn, causing him to scream in terror.
“Don’t you know Jesus rides in the car with me?” his grandmother replied.
His father had given up drinking and became a serious Pentecostal, and he would take Vance to a large Pentecostal church in southeastern Ohio with his new wife and their children.
Vance drank it in. Among other things, he rejected evolution and embraced millennialism, including a belief that the world would end in 2007.
Vance thought he knew certain things about Catholicism — which he didn’t like.
He also doesn’t dwell in his book on his atheism as a young man, a period he describes at length in his conversion essay in The Lamp.
While a student at Yale Law School, Vance went to a talk by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who was Facebook’s first outside investor and co-founded PayPal.
Vance Credits His Hindu Wife With Helping Him Convert to Catholicism.
Usha is the daughter of immigrants from India and a Hindu.
Vance Hasn’t Yet Explained How His Current Position on Abortion Squares With His Catholic Faith. - https://www.ncregister.com/news/j-d-vance-s-catholic-journey
When I looked at the people who meant the most to me, they were Catholic. My uncle by marriage is a Catholic. Rene Girard is someone I only know by reading him, and he was Catholic. (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/j-d-vance-becomes-catholic/)
In Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Girard discusses for the first time Christianity and the Bible. The Gospels ostensibly present themselves as a typical mythical account, with a victim-God lynched by a unanimous crowd, an event that is then commemorated by Christians through ritual sacrifice
The mythical account is usually built on the lie of the guilt of the victim in as much as it is an account of the event seen from the viewpoint of the anonymous lynchers.
One of the main sources of criticism of Girard's work comes from intellectuals who claim that his comparison of Judeo-Christian texts vis-à-vis other religions leaves something to be desired.[59] There are also those who find the interpretation of the Christ event—as a purely human event, having nothing to do with redemption from sin—an unconvincing one, given what the Gospels themselves say.[42] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard#Judeo-Christian_scriptures
May God grant him “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” (2 Timothy 2:25)
J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter - https://capitalandmain.com/how-j-d-vance-went-from-green-tech-investor-to-climate-change-doubter
[homosexual] Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, pumped $10 million into a pro-Vance super PAC, Protect Ohio Values, in March. - https://jewishinsider.com/2021/09/jd-vance-ohio-senate-race/
Don’t forget the very odd call for Senile to win Arizona that Fox’s election chief made which paved the way for the sudden switch in votes in states like GA, Michigan and PA. Pops ended up “winning” AZ by 10,000 votes, a razor thin margin even for a steal that no one could have pinpointed at the hour Fox did. Murdoch also owns the Wall Street Journal which employs Ms. Strassel.
Other than that, I don't see anything keeping him from being the successor to Trump as leader of the MAGA movement.
Seems they didn’t understand the term ‘Bailed out Wall Street and Abandoned Main Street’ from 2008.
See Cantillion Effect. Those closest to the money fire hose get the most benefit. It is the ultimate ‘trickle down’ benefits. That is the reason the middle class is disappearing. Oh,sure, we’ll all be on a level field, on our knees.
We need government as an unbiased arbiter.
Only God knows.
The lies being told about Vance are nauseating. The wage lie is a spin worthy of Trump’s enemies. Vance said that if there are no illegal aliens to work cheap businesses will need to offer higher wages to hire Americans. What exactly is wrong with that?
Did Trump decide on Vance after he was shot?
An article full of innuendos, lies and empty supposition. I have lived through these food flights at FR before but seeing supposed conservatives and lovers of America assault the chosen VP is new to me. What can such enemies of our Country hope to gain?
Rumors and speculation. When JD Vance acts improperly, fails to support MAGA policy then it’s a time to debate. Backbiting now at a time when party unity is needed to usher in a sweep is despicable.
And where are we 44 years after the GOP following that amiable dunce away from exercising State power for the good of the nation?
Reagan brought you the bolshevik revolution and the alien invasion you are living through right now.
That’s a bit much. Reagan worked very hard for normal America. Bush is the source of the rot.
“Reagan brought you the bolshevik revolution and the alien invasion you are living through right now.”
And don’t forget he also brought us immunity for vaccine manufacturers thanks to the Vaccine Act of 1986.
Hard to find earlier examples because search has been politicized and the left is churning out Vance attack articles.
This is an attack article on Vance from 2021 lambasting him for being against minimum wage, universal kindergarten and child care subsidies.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/j-d-vance-says-universal-child-care-attack-working-poor-n1265911
Excerpt
At this point, you can see the problem with this stance Vance holds. You don’t want kids to go to preschool so lower-education families that depend on both parents’ paychecks can actually earn a living wage. But you also don’t want to raise the minimum wage so only one parent can work. But you also don’t want to pay for programs that would allow for a parent to stay home?...snip... “(Vance’s)The book is not subtle in its message: Working-class grunts are to blame for their own struggles,” Lisa Pruitt, a University of California, Davis law professor wrote in December. “If they’d just get off their duffs, go to church and stay married, everything would be OK.”
Wow. More concerned people!
The WSJ. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yes, at this time it’s almost all speculation but the warning signs are there with the billionaire class promoting him so heavily - and they of course expect something in return.
But fortunately the guy who can’t be bought will be his boss.
Agree. They can expect all they want but Trump will not play any game that is not in America’s interest. I don’t believe Vance will either but time will inform us.
Remember
Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump’s biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement
That's how it felt at the time, sure.
But the People have a right to a form and manner of government that is most likely to effect their Safety and their Happiness, and they also have the right to alter or to abolish their existing form of government and to replace it with new forms.
Don't believe me?
Take it up with these guys.
Trivia about the dead Constitution no longer matter.
What matters is, "Are you safe? Are you happy? And how about your grandchildren?"
The GOP is entirely Trump's party now and it bears very little resemblance to grandpa's GOP.
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