The real threat to “American democracy” is not former President Donald Trump or a foreign dictator, but the fact that the American voters keep voting for less immigration and elected politicians keep “rewarding” them with more, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said in a speech Wednesday night.
Vance addressed an audience at the annual National Conservatism Conference in the nation’s capital. The ideas that have come from those conferences, which began in 2019, have changed the Republican Party and the country.
The Ohio lawmaker said that he thinks there have been some positive changes within the GOP regarding foreign policy, noting that there’s now a stronger focus on having a realistic outlook toward the limits of American power.
He said military power is “fundamentally downstream” from industrial power.
“The important lesson from World War II is not that…
