Trump has done so many awful things that it’s hard to single out any one example. But for my money, picking Vance as his VP is his single worst decision. Vance is my least favorite US senator. Picking Vance confirms what I already suspected. The traditional Republican Party is dead—it’s officially the party of nationalism from now on.
PS. Here’s Politico:
“I’m a Never Trump guy,” Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2016, a clip used in both the new ads. “I never liked him.”
Both ads also feature a screenshot of a Vance tweet from October 2016. “My god what an idiot,” he wrote, referring to Trump.
Vance expressed a similar sentiment in other interviews and since-deleted tweets from that time, including publicly mulling the idea of supporting Hillary Clinton, calling Trump “noxious” and “reprehensible.”
And you guys think I’m deranged. Perhaps Vance’s “reckless rhetoric” motivated that young man in Pennsylvania that shot Trump.
Although Vance is deeply evil, he is a smart guy. I have have no doubt at all that these continue to be his private views of Trump. Vance is no “idiot”.
So here we are. Biden is surrounded by staff that privately think he’s senile, and Trump is surrounded by staff that privately think he’s an idiot:
Update: Here’s Reason:
Vance, a former U.S. Marine and graduate of Yale Law School, has a troubling history of engaging in illiberal rhetoric. He argued on the Senate campaign trail that conservatives should “seize the administrative state” and use it “for our own purposes” rather than trying to roll it back. He floated the idea that a Republican president could simply ignore court rulings he doesn’t like. He called for seizing the assets of nonprofits that promote “woke” ideology and redistributing them to politically favored groups. And he told The American Conservative in 2021 that his voters “hate the right people.”