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How Did JD Vance Get Here? - The New York Times [1]

['Paul Krugman']

Date: 2024-07-29

There are talented politicians, there are untalented politicians, and then there’s JD Vance — I mean, he tried to calm the furor over his “childless cat ladies” remarks by feebly deadpanning that he’s “got nothing against cats.”

Now he’s just gaslighting, claiming that Kamala Harris called for an end to the child tax credit, even though as part of the Biden administration, she, of course, supported a major expansion of the tax credit that greatly reduced child poverty but expired in 2022 in the face of unified Republican opposition.

So how did this guy end up as the Republican vice-presidential nominee? Who’s his constituency? Despite the “Handmaid’s Tale” vibe of his views on women and reproductive rights, he doesn’t have deep roots in the religious right. And he’s a late adopter of the MAGA worldview, having once fretted that Donald Trump could wind up being “America’s Hitler.”

Vance’s ascent has, to a significant degree, been powered by a small group of technology billionaires, with Peter Thiel, who poured millions into Vance’s 2022 Senate race, at the center.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/opinion/vance-trump-cryptocurrency.html

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