Vance's nomination is simply a signal that Republicans present are primarily, if not exclusively, Trump's party. In 2016, choosing Mike Pence, Trump made a bow to extremist evangelical and reagonist – neoliberal economical and “jastrębi” in global politics – the wing of the party. This year, choosing a candidate as his vice president, he no longer had to make a akin gesture. He could have pointed out a policy that has been saying "Trump" for respective years, frequently in a sharper form than the erstwhile president. By accepting the Trump-Vance duo, the Republicans decided to offer the voters an offer of "200 percent Trumpism in Trumpism".
‘Bidoks’ spokesperson in liberal media
Vance’s political biography reflects how Trump manages to subdue the organization and its elite. Vance became a celebrated name in the States at the minute Trump's triumph began in American politics: in the summertime of 2016. Trump then assured himself of the Republican nomination, to the amazement of commentators, crushing the importance of more experienced competitors in the primaries and gathering around himself a faithful, even phanate electorate – frequently white, poorly educated and not peculiarly wealthy. Vance released at the same time Elegies for bidets – memories in which he portrays his increasing up in the Ohio folk class, 1 of the states of “rust tape”, devastated by the relocation of industrial production to China.
Vance’s grandparents achieved a lower middle-class standard of surviving through their union work in industry. The parents' generation failed. He was raised by a single mother, inactive struggling with addiction, and future politics had to yet adopt his grandparents.
Author Elegia He broke out of this planet through military and education. After 9/11, he enlisted in the marines, served in Iraq, which he inactive presents as his formative experience. He graduated from Ohio State University and then law school at Yale. In 2016, erstwhile she left Elegia, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for Peter Thiel's fund – a billionaire and influential Republican donor, a individual key to Vance's future political career.
Elegia is on the 1 hand a look at the planet of the liberal elite unknown to the white class working from a deep province, on the another hand a very American past of individual social promotion. The book could scope both liberal and conservative audiences, as it could be read both as a image of structural transformations of American society in the last 30 years, on the another hand as a moralist, spiritual conservative communicative confirming the importance of values specified as family, hard work on self, taking work for their own lives and choices. The combination of these 2 languages has made Elegia An attractive proposal for cinema, in 2020 the book on screen moved Ron Howard, despite the star cast with fatal effect.
In 2016, Vance gained entry into the cracks of liberal media that referred to him as individual who would explain to them why people like his grandparents love Trump so much. Vance became a public individual as a translator of the “world of woes” for liberals. He was very critical of Trump at the time. In the text for The Atlantic compared it to heroin, a political drug that the injured working class applies to themselves to make themselves feel better, but – like real opioids – it is incapable to solve any of its real problems. In his Facebook discussion, he compared the erstwhile president to Hitler.
The Way to Radicalisation
The last 8 years, however, changed Vance’s attitude towards Trump and, above all, to liberal elites whose attention was due to their public visibility. How said Recently, in a conversation with Ross Douthat in the "New York Times", he had 2 groundbreaking events for him: Black Lives substance protests and hearings by the legislature nominated by Trump to the ultimate Court of the ultraconservative Catholic justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in 2018. During her interrogations, Christine Blasely Ford, a prof. of psychology, accused Kavanaugh of the sexual assault he was about to commit on her in the 1980s erstwhile they were both teenagers. The proceeding of the justice before the legislature committee turned into a discussion on events a fewer decades ago, Kavannaugh completely lost his temper, showing that despite the accusations he lacked the intellectual resilience that a candidate for specified a advanced position should have demonstrated.
Vance's wife Usha Chilukuri Vance worked with the judge. Vance, as he told Douthat, never treated the accusations against Kavannaugh as the least reliable, the full case was proof to him that “liberal elites read Carl Schmitt and know that it is not the law that matters, but the force” and that since they are able to destruct individual like Kavannaugh in this way, no 1 is safe.
In a akin way, Vance saw what was happening around Black Lives substance – as proof that liberals instrumentally play a racial card to pacify their political opponents and any discussion on issues specified as migration. Vance, erstwhile he applied for Ohio Senatorship in 2022, in his first election ad He attacked Democrats for calling the wall builders on the border racists, while "illegal migration kills Ohio residents". At the same time, the fact that Vance’s wife is the daughter of migrants from India provides a reasonably convenient alibi to a politician before accusations of racism.
Republican working class
Vance returned from San Francisco to his native Ohio at the beginning of this decade, where he founded his own investment fund – capital was provided, among others, by his erstwhile employer, Peter Thiel. At the same time, he took part in the discussion on how the Republican organization should change.
Vance felt that Republicans should draw conclusions from the fact that in 2016, Trump won with the voices of a white class working in alternatively democratic states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and become a organization of working Americans – at least white and conservative ones. To this end, the organization should abandon free marketplace dogmas, not fear a more active industrial policy, protecting the household marketplace with tools specified as customs, state intervention in the economy, or even beginning up to cooperation with trade unions.
In this conversation with Douthat Vance, he declared that the only politician faction he respects and can communicate with were the supporters of Bernie Sanders. Even his opposition to migration Vance presented as a way to defend the American class working against unemployment and force to lower wages.
How did these proposals translate into Vance’s legislative activity as a senator? Following the train crash in Palestine, Ohio, along with the second Democratic senator from that state, Sherrod Brown, he prepared a fresh bill to regulate railway safety. Already as a senator, he supported the strike of automotive workers. It was besides recognised from its support for measures to regulate the technological sector and weaken its monopolies.
A billionaire man
But before alt-left journalists compose a comment that this nomination is proof that Trump wants to build a “real democratic socialism” in the United States, it is worth remembering that there are many elements in Vance's political biography that do not fit the image of a “working class friend”.
Vance refused to support PRO act, a union-supported bill to facilitate workers' collective negotiations at the workplace. W conversation with Sohrab Ahmari of the British "New Statesman" explained that he was a supporter of many European trade agreements, alternatively than negotiations at the level of each workplace.
Many senator critics indicate that as a position towards Big Tech so much can consequence from the belief that the sector needs to be regulated, as from the desire to revenge on corporations specified as Meta, allegedly “censoring” conservative content on their platforms. In the Vance Senate, he appeared as a faithful ally of the oil sector. Not only does he reject ambitious climate policy, but he is close to denialist climate change.
Vance is besides closely associated with respective billionaires with extremist right-wing views, primarily mentioned Thiel. In 2012, Thiel formed a peculiar election fund supporting Vance's start in Ohio, to which he contributed $10 million. Thiel is simply a radically socially conservative libertarian – although as an outcast homosexual he supports LGBT rights – convinced that the “excess of democracy” threatens freedom and overregulation is the soul of innovation of the American economy.
Thiel was to let Vance and Trump to meet in February 2021 in Florida. How reported "New York Times", Vance then apologized to Trump for what he had written about him in the past, explaining that he believed media lies about the erstwhile president. Vance then convinced the erstwhile president, and became 1 of the most eloquent defenders of his actions after losing the election. Although he never straight said that they had been falsified, he argued that the change in the rules of giving correspondence due to the pandemic during the election was unlawful and could deprive unprepared for specified a mode of campaigning Republicans of victory, Trump had all right, therefore, to rise doubts about it. erstwhile many Republicans turned their backs on Trump after the events of January 6, Vance consistently defended him.
Support for another influential people played a crucial role. Thiel is not the only extremist right-wing billionaire convinced that Vance is the future of Republicans. How revealed Axios portal, and repeated NYT, for Vance's election to the last minute were to lobby for Trump Elon Musk and David Sacks, a billionaire known for consistent criticism of American support for Ukraine after 2022. In turn, against Vance, Rupert Murdoch was to lobby and was assigned to the fresh York Post.
On the another hand, as Nyt wrote, Murdoch's erstwhile worker from Fox News, the first media star of the alt-right and author of an infamous interview with Putin, Tucker Carlson, called Trump from Australia, where he stayed with a series of lectures and convinced the erstwhile president that he had to choose Vance, due to the fact that if he chose a candidate accepted by the American services, those during his tenure with the assassination would change his position as the president's preferred candidate.
Right of Trump
How much will Vance be Trump's electoral asset? The Ohio Senator, if he had won, would have become the first millennium to be vice president of the United States. His nomination brings youth to the race, where the age of both candidates is simply a serious political problem. Vance's biography – moved to screen by Hollywood – can become a large political asset to the Republican team.
According to U.S. media, Vance is expected to get Trump young men and a class working from states specified as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, where elections will settle. That's where Vance is expected to be staying for months to come and replacing Trump with an intense campaign. He besides became known as individual who can effectively defend his views in unfriendly media, 1 of his tasks in the campaign.
Vance, on the another hand, has views on many issues more extremist than Trump. He advocates the ban on abortion besides erstwhile it is the consequence of rape, although he believes that circumstantial solutions should be decided by individual states. He is known for his statements against divorces—even erstwhile matrimony is violent—whose "flag" blames for social and economical problems especially the poorer part of society. Vance, in his studies, an atheist, converted to Catholicism in a radically antiliberal version. Catholic right – e.g. mentioned Kavanaugh and another Trump denominations to Supreme Court – is the main base of Trump's most reactionary coalition.
Vance's radicalism could be a gift to the Democratic campaign, mobilising their supporters.
A terrible message for Poland
Vance's choice is simply a terrible message for Poland. On abroad policy issues, it is hard to have a policy on views more conflicting with the strategical interests of our country. Ohio Senator consistently torpedoed aid to Ukraine, wrote even text for the "New York Times", convincing that the aid does not make sense, due to the fact that the States are incapable to produce adequate weapons and ammunition to aid Ukraine change the destiny of the war, and even if they were, Ukraine will not be able to mobilise adequate troops to win.
Vance believes that Biden's biggest strategical mistake was the excessive global engagement of the States. The Ohio Senator's abroad policy combines far-reaching isolationism with the belief that America must reconcile with the reality of a multipolar world, where states specified as Russia can besides be US allies in selected matters, and the main threat will be China's emergence in power.
The Vice president does not shape, though, unless the president entrusts him with specified tasks – abroad policy and safety of the States, but specified views of the second most crucial individual in the country should origin concern in the Polish political class. Especially that Trump, if he wins in November, will be 78 at the time of office. Vance's choice is an indication of the direction in which the organization after Trump is headed – highly unfavourable to Poland. However, since Vance wrote a letter to Tusk criticizing changes in public media, the writer's right is delighted.
