• @garretble
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    661 month ago

    Maybe not “always has been,” as at one point he said Trump would be “America’s Hitler.”

    But unlike most of us who would probably not want to work for someone you personally think could be Hitler, he’s done the normal GOP thing and flipped right over for the game of it all.

    • Flying Squid
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      161 month ago

      I totally forgot about that, you’re right.

        • Flying Squid
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          61 month ago

          Wow. I totally did not remember him being anything but totally in the ballpark for Trump.

          • @[email protected]
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            71 month ago

            Apparently most of these are from 2016, which feels like a fucking life time ago. Had to look up the time-line of his “career”.

            He came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which describes his upbringing in Middletown and his family’s Appalachian values. It became a New York Times bestseller and attracted significant press attention during the 2016 United States presidential election. Originally, Vance was a critic of Trump and in 2016 wrote a critical piece in The Atlantic against him, but he later came to support him. Vance launched his first political campaign for Ohio’s Senate seat in 2021 and won the Republican nomination after being endorsed by Trump. He defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan in the general election.

    • @grue
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      51 month ago

      Maybe not “always has been,” as at one point he said Trump would be “America’s Hitler.”

      Maybe he meant it in a good way.