{"id":14474,"date":"2024-08-21T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14474"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:00:19","slug":"j-d-vance-completes-trumps-ideological-takeover-of-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14474","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance Completes Trump&#8217;s Ideological Takeover of the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Vance is perhaps the GOP&#8217;s leading practitioner of responding to questions about Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine by pivoting to Mexico and fentanyl. &#8220;What are we talking about?&#8221; he asked at a voter forum in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/story\/news\/2022\/02\/24\/j-d-vance-u-s-should-focus-mexico-canada-not-ukraine\/6914550001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February 2022<\/a>&nbsp;as the invasion was imminent. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a border 5,000 miles away between Ukraine and Russia. That&#8217;s what our leaders are focused on. 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If we had leaders half as concerned about their own border as they were about the Ukraine-Russia border, we would not have a border crisis in this country.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/16\/j-d-vance-completes-trumps-ideological-takeover-of-the-republican-party\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,552,1563,272,355,26,25,1545,2082,315,311,2081,158],"class_list":["post-14474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-conflict","tag-fentanyl","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-invasion","tag-jd-vance","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vance","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14475,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions\/14475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}