Donald Trump may be the right man at the right time to fight FIGHT FIGHT!! against the corrupt transnational blob working to establish their utopian (for them) vision, but J.D. Vance stands head and shoulders above everybody else in the race when it comes to thinking about and discussing how to restore the American Dream.
As I have argued before, I think the kvetching about Trump's choice of Vance was stupid. No matter who Trump picked for Vice President, the mainstream media and the Democrats would strip the bark off them. If Trump had chosen Romney he would be "Mr. Women in Binders, put them back in chains" man again. If he chose Tulsi Gabbard, she would be a Russian asset. If he chose Bernie Sanders, he would suddenly be an evil MAGAT.
Forget what the commentariat say and just look at Vance himself. He is a national treasure.
Hi Hannah, I hope you've been doing well. A few thoughts here.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 5, 2024
1) Many don't fully appreciate how federal (and state) policy penalizes particular family models--particularly in-home care and kinship care--over others. That's true of the Child Care Development Block Grant and the…
I don't say this because I am 100% in alignment with Vance, and I would still prefer Ron DeSantis to run our federal government than Vance. Rather, I see in Vance a man whose values are aligned with America, who thinks deeply about the intersection of real life and policy, and as somebody unafraid to articulate what he thinks without hyperbole, fear of backlash, or of the lies the mainstream media will throw at him.
He speaks to us as adults with a common purpose--to help all Americans achieve the American Dream.
Read Vance's response to Hannah Anderson--a writer of whom I have never heard and by the looks of her social media following, has only modest influence. She speaks to Christians about Christian matters but certainly couldn't move thousands of votes, no less millions.
Yet Vance doesn't sweep her mild critique away like an annoying mosquito but actually engages with her thoughtfully and provides not just her but her readers regarding how he sees the family and how the government can help.
Hannah has only 23,000 followers. Vance has nearly 2 million. So why did Vance respond in the first place, given that he gets far more damaging criticism every five minutes from "influencers" with dramatically greater reach?
Simple: Vance could explain himself rather than defend himself and perhaps win some hearts and minds in the process. By taking the critique seriously and responding thoughtfully, he could say something meaningful.
The exchange is striking, and I expect it to spread far precisely because it is.
Indeed. Lovely to see
— hannah anderson (@sometimesalight) September 5, 2024
Now, Anderson was not a random person--Vance apparently knows her a bit--but what was striking about the exchange was both how thoughtful it was without being politically advantageous at least in the short term. It's almost as if the issue of how to help the American family is important for reasons other than getting short-term political benefits.
I'm not naive enough to think that taking a lot of time out of a campaign to write a short essay on Twitter about any policy is a way to get elected. But it is good to see that Vance is capable of tossing out in a few minutes a thoughtful piece on an important issue. I guarantee you he is one of the few who could in modern politics.
That's why you see Trump doing rallies and Vance doing sit-downs, podcasts, and interviews. Trump is the salesman now and blunt instrument when in office, and Vance will be the man who rebuilds both the Republican Party and the country. I may not always agree with him, but I know he is neither reckless nor thoughtless.
Trump is the sledgehammer we need right now, but Vance and people like him will be the type of people who help us rebuild after the blob is destroyed.
