Vance does not so much flip-flop as ruthlessly shed anything that does not serve his ambition
JD Vance is preternaturally smart, articulate, and scarily capable of ruthless compromise when it suits his agenda. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty, Trump’s choice of vice-presidential candidate, the image that comes to mind is of one of those skilful circus performers, who make their way with astonishing dexterity to the top of a human pyramid with the willing assistance of others. Becoming a vice-presidential candidate at 39 is quite a feat for a self-declared hillbilly.
Will Simon Coveney ever be asked about his role in passing the referendum that led to a rise in abortions?Thiel also funds an array of what might be best described as techno-libertarians who are lukewarm at best about democracy. One of them, blogger Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, believes that US democracy is a failed experiment and that a quasi-monarchy akin to the chief executive of a corporation is needed instead. Vance hangs in the same circles as Yarvin.
In a more genteel fashion, when rumours spread in Washington’s expensive Del Ray district that the Vances had bought a house there,. The fact that Thiel, one of Vance’s principal mentors, is gay, is a level of complexity not reducible to yarn bombing. . Hillbilly Elegy is already out of date. It does not include his conversion to Catholicism, which is central to understanding his worldview but also demonstrates how capable he is of compromise to advance his agenda..
Despite his many and deep connections to Silicon Valley, Vance is allegedly not a friend of big tech, believing instead in little tech. For example, he believes that Lina Khan, another south Asian-American and the antitrust commissioner in Biden’s administration, is doing a good job and that big tech needs to be reined in because behemoths such as Google have too much influence, including on how voters access information.
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