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The Focus Must Be on Harris, Her Ruinous Policy Positions, and Her Lying About Biden’s Cognitive Decline – RedState

They loved him before they loathed him. Media fangirls swooned for JD Vance like disaffected 15-year-olds with unrequited love as they crushed on the “star quarterback.” In 2016 JD was everything they wanted in a Republican: 

  1. JD was no Trump fan. Orange Man Bad. 
  2. Although JD was a straight white man (and therefore an intersectional outlier), he had grown up dirt poor. He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, his was a spork from McDonald’s. A real-life, honest-to-goodness hillbilly. 
  3. Most of his family influencers were women.
  4. He enlisted in the Marine Corps during the global war on terror. 
  5. He had risen from his hillbilly origin to attend Yale Law. 
  6. He married the daughter of immigrants – a successful “person of color.” 
  7. He wrote a best-selling book detailing his life. 
  8. And, in 2016, he had no political ambitions. 

The swoon was palpable. Eight years ago, Vance…

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