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Vance was anti-Trump back in 2016. That said, he seems to have dropped opposition to Trump entirely - I don't know what's in his heart of hearts & all that, of course, but I'm not aware of him disparaging or even distancing himself from Trump in more recent years - and policy-wise he's been fairly solid AFAIK.
Especially on foreign & economic policy, he's been a consistent opponent of funding the Ukraine war (so much so that Ukraine put him on their kill list and he in turn personally got their tranny spokesman fired for advocating violence against people like himself) and a proponent of protectionist trade warfare. He's pro-tariff, pro-border wall & pro-trade war with China, which is a huge improvement over the older-school GOP 'free trade, free movement of workers & offshoring at all costs' business-as-usual. He's also on record opposing escalating shit in the Mideast to a war with Iran, which I'm guessing is the best any modern non-interventionist politician in office can do currently with AIPAC on a hair trigger & sure to bury any candidate who tries to take the next step & oppose funding Israel directly (as evidenced by what they did to Brandon Herrera and are still doing to the non-AOC Squad members). Socially he seems pretty standard for a Midwestern Republican - pro-life, voted against the law codifying fag marriage, is against trooning out children, etc.
At my most optimistic I'm hoping this is a sign that Trump is trying to groom a young successor (another advantage for Vance, he's only 39) who already has some name recognition to steer the GOP's future course: genuine conservative populists and American nationalists who actually want to conserve something other than Lockheed Martin's profit margins, are anti-immigration, anti-world policing, and prioritize domestic manufacturing & improving the livelihoods of Americans first over making the tycoons & Red Chinese richer than ever. At my most pessimistic, I still fear that somewhere very deep down, he may still be a Never-Trump sleeper agent and is waiting for a second attempt on Trump's life in hopes of playing LBJ in red. I guess we'll see soon enough.
One bad thing to come from this is that Vance just won his Senate seat in 2022, and him leaving it now means a replacement will have to be selected by the Governor of Ohio. Said governor is Mike DeWine, who's a RINO, so yeah.
I won't hold that against anyone. Prior to being elected and us getting to see what he was actually made of, it would have been easy to consider Trump as a gimmick candidate running as a publicity stunt.
That was almost precisely my opinion of Trump going into the 2016 election.
"Yet another rich ideologue who says a bunch of things and won't do shit once he's in office."
Didn't think he'd be Hitler, but also didn't think he was even remotely genuine.
But he was, by far, the least bad president we've had in my adult lifetime.
Even if Trump was a joke candidate, he couldn’t possibly be any bigger of a joke than the person he ran against
Depends on if Vance's remarks were during the primaries or general election. When it was Trump vs. Cruz vs. Rubio vs. Kasich vs. Carson vs. Jeb! vs... Trump was definitely one of the less conventional candidates.
Yeah I'm really not looking forward to DeCuck getting to appoint his replacement. 100% will be a major downgrade.
I was about to correct you that he was from Ohio, not Florida, before I realized you were talking about DeWine, not DeSantis.
Weird how two of the worst establishment shills are faux Italians. Or is there another reason for these strange names?
DeLorean and time machine shenanigans?
Italians control the world /s
Not gonna lie, this is both surprising and makes Vance sound really good.
Not going to give him the benefit of the doubt, but fingers crossed.
As far as the pick Trump went with, WOW. he's like breath of fresh air compared to all of the legislators Trump picked back then.