DrLove
Diamond Member
Gotta love these Ivy League types who actually LOATHE Trump, but realize they must kowtow to his phony brand of populism in order to run for something (anything) as a Republican. But hey, at least JD is honest!
“I’m not just a flip-flopper, I’m a flip-flop-flipper on Trump,” J.D. Vance says with a laugh, slicing into a half-stack of breakfast pancakes. The Hillbilly Elegy author and newly minted Republican Senate candidate is sitting at the counter of a Cincinnati diner on July 2, explaining why he thinks he can win.
The prior evening, Vance had launched his 2022 bid at a steel-tube factory in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, with paeans to the American Dream and blasts of populist rhetoric. “The elites plunder this country and then blame us for it in the process,” he told a crowd of several hundred.
Trump is “the leader of this movement,” Vance tells me, “and if I actually care about these people and the things I say I care about, I need to just suck it up and support him.”
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Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate
Running for office was a predictable next step for Vance, whose hit memoir traced his rise from troubled Appalachian roots to the Marines and Yale Law School
time.com