I don't know if this will hurt him too much. Candace Owens was a liberal before "Liberals made her a conservative", and she went full alt right. People exposed her past and it made no difference.
He's been baptized in the blood of MAGA. His sins are forgiven.
That's mostly true, but it should make the 10% who are undecided or "both sides" at least think a little. JD Vance has changed positions on a lot of things, but he's ALWAYS been conservative. Marine vet from white trash kentucky who moved in conservative circles even when he was still in law school, started interning for John Cornyn the moment he graduated, then clerked for Jim Bunning's son, then went off to work for Theil. So he was deep deep deep in Republican circles when he was saying this stuff. And he STILL could see how fukking racist and despot-like Trump was.
Dude actually seems like a decent guy in private
It’s wild that in order to be a republican in 2024 it’s a race to who can say the craziest shyt with a straight face
"Was", maybe. Doubt he still is if he's been willing to do this for the last 6-7 years.
And going back to his memoir, he was always on some "the poor are lazy and the cause of their own problems" shyt. Liberals just liked it cause he was talking shyt about the white poor for once. But it shows a sort of condescension that was there with him from the beginning. He's nice to the transgender friend cause they're a Yale Law grad so they're on his level.
And THIS is how easy it is for ppl to flip when they have real access to money and power.
Thiel told him to play the role to get in position and he did.
He’s talking about Trump but he’s equally as morally reprehensible.
Equally? Maybe even more morally reprehensible. If you know how evil your words/acts are and are doing them anyway just to get close to power, in some ways that's even worse than actually believing it.