I’m obviously opposed to mass migration but what does Vance think is the most prosperous country on Earth if not the US?
This is one of the reasons I think he’s a plant. He’s moving the Trump campaign in a subtly unpatriotic direction. The message is always that this country is worse than some unnamed others.
The far left used to coalesce around this kind of anti-Americanism. The US was always guilty of everything, doing everything wrong. But at least the left always named the alternative that it considered to be better. The USSR, then Sweden (in its utterly imaginary form), sometimes Canada. This gave some room to disproving America’s assumed inferiority by demonstrating that the USSR was enormously worse and the Sweden that the left imagined did not exist.
Vance’s unpatriotism is more insidious. We never learn whom he considers to be more prosperous, with a more successful immigration policy and a better functioning economy. America is vaguely bad because it is. The yardstick that measures this badness is hidden or non-existent.
I was on the left for years, and this habit of contemptuous sniping at America is very familiar. I don’t think Vance is doing it on purpose. I believe, instead, that he picked it up from his far-left wife and it became second nature.
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But Trump himself has been saying for a long time that the USA is turning into a third-world country. Have you heard his inauguration speech?
Have you watched that recent video of a journalist asking Stephen Miller for proof of his statement that Venezuela is safer than the USA?
https://x.com/josemdelpino/status/1833910213096722479
I see JD’s statements as falling in line with Trump and his orbit have been saying, not leading them.
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Agreed. This is very unpatriotic.
In the grand scheme of things, there is no other country on earth who assimilates immigrants better than the USA. There is a reason why so many want to come here. How about we start our discussing from there and then go on finding ways to allow people to legally continue to immigrate after a proper vetting process in their home countries.
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