Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard has taken a swipe at JD Vance, suggesting that Donald Trump’s Republican running mate has “changed” since he first met him.
Earlier this year, Vance was selected to be Trump’s possible vice president in the 2024 US presidential election race – but before his political career, he was known for being the author of memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which was later adapted into a Netflix film of the same name.
Since being announced as Trump’s running mate, Vance has been criticised for comments that saw him refer to women, such as Trump’s presidential rival Kamala Harris, as “childless cat ladies”. This prompted swift backlash and accusations of sexism, with Vance claiming the remarks were made in “sarcasm”.
On his press tour, he had a lot of negative things to say about Trump. In conversation with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, he said:
“I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
In public, Vance said that Trump was, “unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
And in unearthed private messages, he compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
From 2016. Seems he did drastically change his opinions on trump once in politics.
Vance actually had really good ideas until he went Trump. A mixture of far left and middle right politics. Now you never hear his working class ideas.
It’s hard to imagine this is the guy who said declare war on corporations
Vance actually had really good ideas until he went Trump.
He’s always been a far-right reactionary with paleoconservative views.
He just drifted from the corporate insider Mitt Romney track to the populist outsider Ron DeSantis track as he watched Trump’s brand take over the party.
If you consider taxing the rich. Unions and attacking companies as far right then sure. He’s always been far right. It sounds like you’ve never read about Vance and that’s why you don’t see the radical change from who he was to supporting Trump.
A mixture of far left and middle right politics
So like national socialism then? 🤔
Fascism was originally supposed to be a mixture of “the best parts of the right and the left”.
