Why Trump Haters Have Set Their Sights on J. D. Vance Vance will continue to be an object of scorn for liberals who feel betrayed by him.
By Chris Buskirk
July 5, 2021
The Progressive Left has a bullseye on J. D. Vance. Ever since he announced his run for the U.S. Senate in Middletown, Ohio last week to replace retiring Republican Rob Portman, the media has been bashing him. The Daily Beast claims he’s “an avatar of GOP corruption” and is upset that he mentioned Jeffrey Epstein and John Weaver as sex predators (the author says that’s a QAnon conspiracy!), while New York magazine says Vance’s campaign “feels doomed” less than 24 hours after he made his announcement speech in front of a pumped-up crowd of around 500.
The liberal press is joined in its opposition to Vance by the anti-Trump ex-Republicans at the Lincoln Project, which spent close to $100 million against Trump last year. Bill Kristol and a list of other D.C.-based Trump haters have spent the days since his announcement calling Vance a “dirtbag” and a racist for using horrible terms like “nation-state.” ...
And then the knives were out for him. It’s much more intense now that he’s a candidate for Senate, but it’s been going on for years.
In August 2019, the Washington Post ran an op-ed accusing Vance of—you guessed it—“white nationalism.” Why? Because he had just given a speech in which he said he thought it was good for America when people are getting married and having children and bad when they are not. ...
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