José Niño
Right-wing populists in Ohio rejoiced on May 3, 2022 after JD Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, won the Republican primary for Ohio’s open US Senate seat with 32% of the vote.
By successfully receiving the Republican nomination, Vance will now head to the general election to square off against Ohio congressman Tim Ryan for the open senate seat.
As an unapologetic populist, Vance has naturally attracted a lot of enemies in the ruling class. His restrained foriegn policy views and support for immigration restriction makes many political gatekeepers such as Bill Kristol, the editor at large at The Bulwark, go nuts.
Kristol is a seasoned neoconservative who is terrified at the rise of populism in America. Vance’s victory in the primaries and projected victory in the general — given how red Ohio has become — is making Kristol sweat bullets.
On the night Vance won the GOP nomination, Kristol instantly went on Twitter to smear Vance. Kristol tweeted, “
This November’s election for U.S. senator in Ohio:
Tim Ryan (Democrat)
Vs.
J.D. Vance (Authoritarian)”
The irony here is that Kristol supports policies such as mass migration and never-ending wars which are as anti-democratic as it gets. For a start, mass migration is all about “electing a new people” and using a never-ending flow of migrants to displace legacy Americans and dilute their votes.
On the perpetual war front, working class and other young men from Middle America are deployed abroad to either die, get wounded, or mentally traumatized by participating in conflicts that serve no national interest. Moreover, perpetual war is an oligarchical project that is pushed by the defense industry and foreign policy wonks in well-funded think tanks.
These types of people’s whole livelihoods are dependent on the existence of military conflicts. As long as some kind of war is going down, the pro-perpetual war crowd is gainfully employed. On the other hand, Middle America gets shafted as productive resources that would otherwise be allocated towards addressing America’s infrastructure problems are shifted to unproductive defense ventures.
Kristol has no room to talk about Vance being “authoritarian” when many of the policies he and his globalist ilk push benefit the ruling class and often require anti-democratic measures in order to be implemented.
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