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J. D. Vance

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[Wikipedia] James David Vance is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the state of Ohio in the United States Senate from 2023 to 2025.

Quotes by J. D. Vance

Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real…

Church

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I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me...…

Anger

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Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

Family

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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down…

Admire

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I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of…

Action

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Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.

Blame

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What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

Alienation

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The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.

Care

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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…

Donald trump

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It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country…

Country

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My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I…

Middle east

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I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only…

Government

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I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt…

Crisis

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People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially…

Leaders

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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that…

Election

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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved…

Federal reserve

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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if…

Grandma

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For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live…

Believe

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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry…

Chance

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Not every town can or should be saved.

Every

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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails…

Family

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To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to…

Basic training

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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules,…

Faith

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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle,…

Battle

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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office.

Mr

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