Trump's New VP Pick Called Trump "America's Hitler"
JD Vance called out Trump's fascism before shamelessly embracing it
Hours after a registered Republican white male shooter with a legally purchased firearm shot at Donald Trump, Ohio Senator JD Vance tweeted the below:
In particular, Vance condemned the shooting and declared it the result of the Biden campaign’s premise that “President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.” There’s only one problem with Vance’s allegation. That is, it wasn’t President Biden’s 2024 Presidential campaign that loudly compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler—it was JD Vance himself in 2016.
Let’s Address This.
JD Vance publicly declared in response to Donald Trump’s first run for President:
I go back and forth between thinking Trump might be a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he might be America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?
Vance additionally described Trump as “idiot,” “noxious,” and “reprehensible.” I have to say I agree. Therefore, while Vance now speaks of the need to decrease political violence and dangerous political rhetoric—when unclouded by the promise of unimpeachable power—JD Vance himself compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. And now Vance remarkably blames others for agreeing with him, when he should be taking a victory lap for calling out Trump’s fascism before most anyone else on the right did.
Since comparing Trump to Hitler, Vance has of course aggressively flipped the script, and now proudly embraces Donald Trump and his fascism. And now, Donald Trump rewards that loyalty as only a fascist in chief could—by selecting JD Vance as his vice president running mate for the 2024 election.
Here are the three takeaways to keep in mind.
First, this is a stark reminder that fascism has no principles, no morals, no values—except achieving the goal of a raw power grab. And thus, despite recognizing that Donald Trump is “America’s Hitler,” Vance has no problem embracing that fascism as a means to gain access to power. Do not expect fascists to live by their word, because their code is not tied to any word, but to what gets them in power.
Second, this is a stark reminder of just how badly corporate and dark money has decimated our fragile democratic republic. JD Vance didn’t just flip the script and start supporting Trump despite recognizing his fascism, he did so with an absurd $15 million boost from a right wing billionaire. The Citizens United decision has wreaked havoc on our politics. And this is not only a Republican problem. I ran for Congress against a Democrat named Bill Foster who is already worth tens of millions of dollars—and despite that—Foster still shamelessly took millions from banks, big oil, and big pharma, before voting with Donald Trump and Republicans to deregulate banks, promote drilling, and repeal key parts of the ACA.
Third, this is a reminder that fascists don’t play by the rules and instead notoriously eschew responsibility or accountability for their actions. This is why despite the fact that the shooter who made an attempt on Trump’s life is a registered republican, white male US citizen, operating a legally purchased firearm—MAGA Republicans still blame anyone but themselves. Instead, they are now blaming DEI. As political violence increases in America—manufactured by MAGA extremists—they will be sure to blame anyone but themselves, and we risk seeing a spike in anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, and misogynistic hate crimes.
Our response to this rising fascism requires us to elevate our work to uphold justice. We cannot expect to simply win by voting on Election Day. We must activate, organize, register American citizens to vote who have not voted before, and stop enabling politicians who are funded by billion dollar corporations instead of the American people.
JD Vance is another addition to the Project 2025 fascist manifesto. Vance should be careful. I heard the last guy who had his job had to quit after he was almost hanged on Capitol Hill. By accepting Trump’s invitation to be his new VP, and per Vance’s own words—Vance himself has committed to electing “America’s Hitler.”
Indeed, how’s that for discouraging?
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Brilliant observations as usual by Qasim Rashid. So glad this has been flagged and is being flogged. Since the weekend, the MAGA minions have been blaming the Democrats for incendiary language that Trump brought to the table as soon as he started running for office and accused President Obama (ridiculously) as being born in "Africa." (Trump couldn't even decide on a nation, but just used the entire "dark continent" as it was once called.) The delusion about who went low and who went high is par for the course, but has even been spouted by no less a flaming idiot than Marjorie Taylor Greene, who herself used vile language while attempting to call out vile language -- she of the "Jewish space laser" theory had the never-ending balls to even open her mouth. I also noticed that at first at least Trump rightly thanked law enforcement for keeping him safe; now, he's playing to his Christian Evangelicals by proclaiming it was "only God" who kept him safe. God had nothing to do with it, but now he will play the second coming of Christ right on the political stage. The shit show is about to begin. I can't believe at my age of 68 I am witnessing the fall of American democracy. Please people -- get out the blue vote in November.
I knew it would not be too long before you would find it. How many politicians are going to sell their souls to this person? This guy is a serial liar who will say anything to appease his party and the party leader. Let’s get them at the ballot and assure that they lose badly.