“Win or lose, Vance represents something bleak in the American political imagination, and something that won’t go away with one defeat in November.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

JD Vance surfaces the strange, sometimes openly hateful language of the fringe right

Since the 1960s, parties have been more circumspect in courting far right votes, but Vance knows those votes have not disappeared

A++.

“sometimes openly hateful”sometimes?!?

Very, very true. We’re stuck with them. I don’t know if it’s forever but —it’s long enough.

One in ten identify as white nationalist. That’s a bleak statistic, and I’d like to know the definition they used and how the poll asked the question. (Not saying it’s false. Just that I’m surprised so many people would call themselves that term instead of some softened version of the same thing.)

That’s a really scary read…

But let's try that anyway!

Helluva first paragraph.

Maybe they can replace him with the brain worm guy?

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i was genuinely shocked when he won by so much in ohio his ad was literally "are you racist? do you hate mexicans? well, anyway!"