“Republicans are gonna Republican”
“Republicans are gonna Republican” should be one of the primary laws of political science for anyone who is even remotely engaged in trying to understand how things work on a basic level – even if it’s as basic as canvassing or phone banking to get out the vote for Democrats in a local election.
So long as they keep that R after their name, they’re going to do things that will make life harder for pretty much anybody who isn’t a wealthy donor. JD Vance has been hailed as a young and intellectual conservative for about a decade now, largely because he went to Yale and wrote a book about growing up in suburban (not rural) Ohio.
Of course, in reality, he’s just as awful as that movement has been since well before he was alive (or his grandfather was even alive.) The GOP might have a few actors who were reasonable at one point, but when push comes to shove, the awfulness – repealing rights and freedoms a lot of us have enjoyed and even taken for granted since the mid-20th century, you can always expect them to do the same chiseling away of those freedoms by voting the party line.
That’s exactly what JD Vance did when he cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate on one of the worst bills the GOP has ever proposed – and it is up to us to make sure that’s what he is forever known for doing. He ripped healthcare away from 18 million people when he had the chance to stand up to Donald Trump and offer something better. That’s the only thing you need to know about him between now and 2028 when he likely runs for president.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making