JD Vance wants relevance again, as corporate grifting seems not to have gone out of style. The progenitor of NY Times Trumpist interviews seems to want a Senate seat, but “there is no right-wing populist nationalist answer to the problems he claims to care about.”
The best response to JD Vance is not to say “LOL he’s scamming GOP voters” or “LOL Thiel is bankrolling him.” It’s to point out that his worldview is fraudulent: There is no right-wing populist nationalist answer to the problems he claims to care about.https://t.co/8p4ZIQmydf
When President Bidenrecently announced a deal with 130 countriesto combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, you probably didn’t connect the news to the poisonous impact that Donald Trump continues to wield over our politics.
But if Biden can pull this off, it could deal a big blow to one of the worst aspects of that Trumpian toxicity — the lingering lure of the former president’s right-wing nationalism.
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That will be tough to pull off. But the deal is itself already a victory. In an unappreciated way, it points to a meaningful answer to Trumpian nationalist demagoguery by rehabilitating a sense of the possibilities of multilateralism as a response to many problems unleashed by globalization.
You see this right-wing nationalism when J.D. Vance, who’s running for Senate in Ohio,calls forhigher taxes on multinationals, whiledeclaringthat global capitalism has been very good to the “elites and the ruling class” who “have plundered this country.”
In early 2018, Vance was reported to have been considering a bid forU.S. Senateas a Republican running against DemocratSherrod Brown,[32]but declined to run.[33]In April 2021, Vance expressed interest in running for the Ohio Senate seat being vacated by RepublicanRob Portman.[34]
Vance is a Visiting Fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Instituteresearching American society and culture, and the social impact of economic policy.[19]
The JD Vance plan (aka the Stefanik plan) is simple:
1. Win the primary by riling up the most reprehensible part of the GOP electorate
2. Count on negative partisanship to win by default as a GOPer
3. Get elected and write the tax code to pay back Thiel
4. Never go home again
JD Vance’s schtick is boring at this point (we get it, you want the libs to dunk on you so you can differentiate yourself in the primary), but it’s still extremely funny that Glenn Greenwald said he adopted anti-imperialist politics. The guy is funded with Palantir money!
Tell him to stay in the same place he stayed three years ago when I saw him just before he gave a talk at Columbia. Or at the place he stayed a month or two before that when we were on MSNBC together. https://t.co/FMZLrz5HL6
I know it’s tough for you because the Yale Club’s guest rooms are closed until Labor Day, but you can ask your billionaire funder, Peter Thiel, if you can stay at his Park Avenue apartment. Seems like it has a nice view, just the thing for a down-to-Earth fella like yourself. pic.twitter.com/foJnFEhra9
VD Jance is as much a creation of liberal institutions and ecosystems
Can’t forget the nice, independent, liberal bookstores that put the Appalachia book in their display windows, or the fact that it’s the rare conservative best-seller that got its status by selling to libs
