JD Vance & How America Uses the Poor for Gain

Candidate Trump has selected Vance to signal that the era of the old guard conservative is over, there is only the Republican party that’s fully behind Project 2025, with little need to share power. Trump’s selection of Vance is meant to shore up support among the white working class, while ignoring candidates who might represent people of color. The hope here is that (just like the statistics indicate) white men and women are largely responsible for a Trump presidency, and whites remain his core constituency.

Wall Street Journal political correspondent Molly Ball says that “By picking Vance, Trump is showing that he’s doubling down on this MAGA agenda. It’s a full-throated, populist national conservative ticket.”