https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/07\/16\/vance-shocking-inexperience-asset-00168816<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“JD Vance wasn\u2019t picked as Donald Trump\u2019s running mate because he can deliver Ohio. It\u2019s already in the tank for the GOP. And he wasn\u2019t tapped because he\u2019s the most qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. The entirety of his government experience consists of less than two years in the Senate.
\nVance\u2019s ascension is owed to something else entirely. He is the embodiment \u2014 and one of the most articulate defenders \u2014 of a belief system that has gradually taken hold of the Republican Party, one that prizes cultural and ideological warfare and rewards the warriors who are most effective in taking the fight to non-believers.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“Vance has experience where it counts for the Trump era GOP, in the social media trenches and on cable TV hits. His Marine Corps service \u2014 Vance is the first post-9\/11 veteran on a major-party ticket \u2014 insulates him on foreign policy, and offers a measure of credibility to isolationist views that once might have been dismissed as a product of a lack of seasoning.<\/p>\n
He projects cool anger, and knows the enemy as well as anyone in the party because he\u2019s lived and circulated among them, as a venture capitalist, a celebrated author and a Yale Law School graduate. He doesn\u2019t deliver his home state so much as send a message to the restive regions that the GOP aspires to keep in its fold \u2014 the Rust Belt and Appalachia.<\/p>\n
Trump spoke to these aspects of Vance\u2019s background in announcing his pick Monday on social media, ticking off LinkedIn bullet points that individually served as dog whistles to the faithful.”<\/p>\n
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