{"id":9390,"date":"2022-11-25T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9390"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:44:24","slug":"j-d-vance-seized-his-chance-but-the-new-right-had-a-bad-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9390","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance Seized His Chance, but the New Right Had a Bad Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Vance, who admits to being a &#8220;flip-flop-flipper&#8221; on Trump, may seem like a counterexample to this narrative. In 2016, he tweeted that the then\u2013presidential candidate &#8220;makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible.&#8221; Responding to the&nbsp;<em>Access Hollywood&nbsp;<\/em>tape, he lamented, &#8220;Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man.&#8221; He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KFILE\/status\/1410647434359881732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted<\/a>&nbsp;those tweets, and others critical of the 45th president, while bidding for Trump&#8217;s endorsement in the Senate primary, which he eventually received. (Trump then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3649564-trump-says-vance-kissing-my-a-compares-reversal-to-kim-jong-un\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly<\/a>&nbsp;joked that Vance had &#8220;kiss[ed] my ass&#8221; to get his support, proving that no act of abject fealty goes unpunished.)&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/j-d-vance-seized-his-chance-but-the-new-right-had-a-bad-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/09\/j-d-vance-seized-his-chance-but-the-new-right-had-a-bad-night\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vance, who admits to being a &#8220;flip-flop-flipper&#8221; on Trump, may seem like a counterexample to this narrative. In 2016, he tweeted that the then\u2013presidential candidate &#8220;makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible.&#8221; Responding to the Access Hollywood tape, he lamented, &#8220;Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man.&#8221; He deleted those tweets, and others critical of the 45th president, while bidding for Trump&#8217;s endorsement in the Senate primary, which he eventually received. (Trump then publicly joked that Vance had &#8220;kiss[ed] my ass&#8221; to get his support, proving that no act of abject fealty goes unpunished.)&#8221;<\/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":[221,372,198,506,170],"class_list":["post-9390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390","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=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9391,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}