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The texts really highlight how much more dangerous Vance would be
He's Yale educated and put with his wife to become a "power couple" by the freaking "Tiger Mom" who's a Yale professor who gets lots of up and coming conservatives clerkships up to even the SC. Including Usha Vance with multiple now SC justices.
He's not some hillbilly bumpkin, he's incredibly dangerous, like the HW Bush to Reagan.
That's why I hate people always focusing on trump. trump is the distraction just like Reagan, both god awful humans aware of what they're doing, but not the ones really calling the shots, and the most replaceable of all the pieces.
Would people do what Vance told them to do though?
He's a couch fucker, but he's undeniably got more charisma than HW, and HW still beat Dukakis...
History rhymes bro
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election
Which is easy when the last names never change I guess.
My point being, the Vance's are going to potentially be around another 30-40 years.
It took Biden 40 years to be VP, and a decade more to be president.
It does remain to be seen if Trump's cult of personality will carry on after him. Will be interesting to see how all these sycophants will shake out when it happens. I'm not sure Vance will come out on top.
Exactly like with HW...
Or if you want to get away from Republicans: the Vances and the Clintons share an insane amount of pararells.
JD is no Bill as far as charisma, but they have similar backgrounds and married insanely smart women with very conservative economic beliefs very quickly after meeting them at Yale Law School then immediately getting into politics using their wives political connections as much as their own.
Like I said, history rhymes.
People need to stop being so shortsighted, or the wealthy are gonna keep winning off the same proven playbook.
They're all set to "third way" the Republican party and provide an alternative to trumpism when it fails and have the billionaire money behind them to try and fight a progressive in 28.
Do people honestly not see it coming?
I mean, Berlusconi's populism morphed into Salvini's own spin, but such a development doesn't translate well into American politics
So if Vance takes over, will you then have a ottoman empire?
A one-term president who may have been much smarter than his predecessor but lacked the charisma and wasn't able to get much done as a result.
JD Vance is much smarter, but there's only one god emperor in this cult. If Trump died, the GOP would suddenly lack a focal point and would go back to infighting and chaos.
You have zero idea about either of them...
But are very proud of your opinion it seems