Van Jones: Trump’s VP Pick Is a Horror on the World Stage
‘[Trump] is impulsive intuitive nationalists while J.D. Vance is an ideological nationalist — that‘s a much more dangerous virus’
Jul 16, 2024 5:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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JONES: “But I think, you know, part of the reason that J.D. Vance matters isn‘t for these kind of short-term electoral calculations. He matters because what he means for a Republican Party long-term. This is cementing a kind of nationalism. Now, Trump, to your point, I agree with you, he‘s an instinctive, impulsive, intuitive nationalist. J.D. Vance is an ideological nationalist. That‘s a much more dangerous virus because he can make this — he can polish this stuff and make it seem palatable to people. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley. He can sell this stuff other places. And what it does is it locks the Republican Party on a pathway that I think is dangerous for the world. Again, the Ukrainians are now in deep trouble. NATO is now in deep trouble. Trump is — he could have gone with a Nikki Haley and signal to the world, 'Hey, listen, I got to give stuff to my base, but I‘m not going to abandon the world.' This pick is a horror on the world stage. So J.D. Vance matters because Donald Trump is pointing the Republican Party in a very scary direction for the long term."
