What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and save for his skin color, he had much in common with… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I think what Trump will be judged on by the folks that voted for him... is whether things start to get a… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him. — J. D. Vance Copy Share
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share
The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses. — J. D. Vance Copy Share
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about. — J. D. Vance Copy Share
I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world… — J. D. Vance Copy Share
