Who is J.D Vance? Hes The Face of the New Republican Party Going Forward!
Submitted by George McClellan
If you read Hillbilly Elegy when it came out in 2016, were you shocked that the memoir of a poor boy from Ohios Appalachian area, hard up against the Ohio River about JDs life would become so compelling that even Ron Howard made a movie out of it? Who could possibly care about the poverty stricken poor whites in Appalachias rust belt? Apparently the Ohio voters did, enough anyway to make him one of their US senators.
JD, encouraged by his grandma, escaped the grip of a dying industrial America, a rust belt of growing joblessness, poverty and hopelessness, first by joining the US Marine Corps and getting through it unscathed, realizing his intellectual potential driven by a desire to address the situation of the people of his region to get them out of the poverty they faced. He tried college and passed, then won a slot at Vale Law School from which he graduated (No good recommendation these days, however) and was hired by a prestigious law firm before realizing the potential in his hands to make good on his dreams. He ran for and succeeded in becoming Ohios junior Senator. In his campaign, he was asked about Donald Trump and he acknowledged while he was a conservative, he didnt like Trump and was a Never Trumper. It was during this 2021 campaign to become a senator from Ohio, that he realized that Trump wanted exactly what he was campaigning for and he changed freely admitting he is a pro Trump conservative. Vance took his place in the Senate chamber while Trump was battling off the slings and arrows of evil Democrat-Socialists fearing their agenda could be in peril. He was basically ignored.
The notoriety of his authorship of Hillbilly Elegy, quickly saw him as a public face dispensing the common sense conservative economic ideas that could lift the poor to higher levels of prosperity. His political views were solicited and his opinions, based upon what he wrote as a redneck author who climbed out of the pit of poor working class Americans, were compelling, even earth shaking. No politician or political commentator in our modern times has ever seriously solicited the opinion of an apparent nobody who they thought would rise above the horizon line, even for a short time, wouldnt last, to make waves against the socialist establishment and succeed! So, here he is today, standing on the platform of the Republican National Convention, next to Donald Trump as the anointed heir apparent of the New Republican Party. How did he get here?
Perseverance I suspect was the key, not with any intent of becoming a Vice President but of altering the political scenery to return America to its inherent republican roots of constitutional conservatism. His elevation to be Trump’s successor was earth shaking. The GOP has a deep and growing cadre of capable politicians, any one of whom could have been selected. Trump’s decision to select a young JD Vance shines a warning light on the NeoCons in the GOP and the socialist on the Left, they have a fight coming. For them its get up, get with it or get out!
Imagine the dichotomy, the two of em standing on that platform, an ultra rich billionaire former president with a patch on his right ear and a once poor but growingly successful redneck hillbilly senator, coming together to save America. What brought them together? It was in the Ohio senatorial debate when Vance was the only candidate on stage to disagree with the proposition that NATO should enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine because, he said, having US military aviators engaged in direct combat with Russians was not in our vital national interest. Vances political stature was enhanced when he became Ohios US senator, his public positions melding favorably with Trump’s vision to fundamentally return the Republican Party to its original conservative republicanism. It’s the new right of national conservatism where Trump has taken us, He expects, with Vances help to Make America Great Again. It will be young Vances job to continue the fight because evil never dies. This is a Cinderella story again. Its got to have a happy ending. Perhaps it will, but in the meantime we will face severe trials and tribulations before its over.
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go help save America(16Jul24)