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https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2026/07/11/jd-vance-takes-on-milton-friedman-n3816824 JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.
That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.
In Vance's interview last week with The Daily Wire, he sounded much more like a Mitt Romney, big-government RINO than a Trump or Ronald Reagan.
Decide for yourself. Here are some of Vance's misguided views on economics and the future of the GOP:
"Milton Friedman's ideas made more sense in the 1980s because they were being advocated in a country that still had a very rich and powerful institutional Christianity."
"If you look at modern Britain and the result of Margaret Thatcher's policies, you would say that her policies actually got Britain further away from that ideal and not closer to that ideal."
"I think that meritocracy can steal from us a sense of what really, really matters."
"When Donald Trump ran for president the first time, the idea of tariffs on imported goods was a heresy in the GOP. It is now the baseline position that virtually every Republican politician adopts."
"If you turn economic development (i.e., prosperity) into a sort of idol, then you end up sacrificing a lot of the things that matter most."
"American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman. I think that's obviously a good thing."
This is anti-free-market, big government gobbledygook. Here's just one "laissez-faire economic truism" that JD should learn: Individuals can always spend their own money better than the government.
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JD starting to sound like a squishy RINO now...
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