JD Vance’s 2012 ‘Rebuke’ Of GOP For Being ‘Openly Hostile To Non-Whites’ Was Deleted At His Request
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I wonder if Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance has ever asked himself what his younger self would think of him now. Most of us have asked ourselves that question, and we’d like to think the version of ourselves from 10 or 20 years ago would be proud of how far we’ve progressed. That doesn’t appear to be the case with Vance.
Apparently, if Vance’s self from just 12 years ago was to meet the JD Vance of today, he would be calling his future self a racist, xenophobic white nationalist who exemplifies the reason the Republican party just doesn’t do well with non-white voters.
In November 2012, when Vance was a 28-year-old law student at Yale, he wrote what CNN called a “scathing rebuke” of the Republican Party via a blog post criticizing the GOP for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and alienating “Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.” Four years later, Vance was hoping no one important would ever read that post, which is why he requested that Brad Nelson — a professor at Ohio State University who taught Vance when was an undergraduate student at the school — delete the post from the blog site Nelson ran for the non-partisan Center for World Conflict and Peace.
Nelson granted Vance’s request, but, unfortunately for Vance, nothing that is ever posted to the internet is truly gone forever, and his post, titled “A Blueprint for the GOP,” is still viewable on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
From the archive:
When the 2008 election was called for Obama, I remember thinking: maybe this will teach my party some very important lessons. You can’t nominate people, like Sarah Palin, who scare away swing voters. You can’t actively alienate every growing bloc of the American electorate—Blacks, Latinos, the youth—and you can’t depend solely on the single shrinking bloc of the electorate—Whites. And yet, four years later, I am again forced to reflect on a party that nominated the worst kind of people, like Richard Mourdock, and tried to win an election by appealing only to White people.
Vance went on to write:
To the average Latino or Black voter, one party speaks about education reform while the other repeats platitudes that have long outgrown their use. Is it any wonder that they support the former?
On immigration, Republicans are similarly tone deaf. I became a conservative in large part because I felt that the Right was far more honest about the real state of the world. Yet a significant part of Republican immigration policy centers on the possibility of deporting 12 million people (or “self deporting” them). Think about it: we conservatives (rightly) mistrust the government to efficiently administer business loans and regulate our food supply, yet we allegedly believe that it can deport millions of unregistered aliens. The notion fails to pass the laugh test. The same can be said for too much of the party’s platform.
This couldn’t possibly be the same JD Vance who has joined his running mate, Donald Trump, on his brazenly bigoted anti-immigrant propaganda campaign, which includes Vance’s false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating people’s cats and dogs.
This isn’t the same Vance who has defended spreading these ugly and dangerous falsehoods by claiming he has received numerous firsthand accounts of that lie, not a single one of which he has produced as tangible evidence backing his racist white nonsense.
Imagine 2012 Vance — who advised his party that it was shooting itself in the foot by “appealing only to white people — meeting 2024 Vance, who said he’s willing to “create stories” (lies) about Haitians in order to draw attention to the 83% of Springfield residents who are white and, he alleges, suffering. What would 2012 Vance do to 2024 Vance showing no concern for the Haitian community in and outside of Springfield, whose members have already complained that they’re being targeted due to the lies spread about him?
In fact, according to Politico, Vance also once wrote about the act of scapegoating, defining it as “efforts to shift blame and our own inadequacies onto a victim” as “a moral failing, projected violently upon someone else.”
Actually, this reminds me of something I wrote about Vance earlier this week:
Mind you, Vance has also spread the falsehood that Haitian migrants are responsible for a steep increase in HIV cases in Ohio. Last week, while admitting that it’s “possible” the “rumors” he spread about pet-eating migrants “will all turn out to be false,” Trump’s VP pick tweeted that “communicable diseases–like TB and HIV–have been on the rise” in Ohio, implying that the rise is due to the influx of immigrants in the city.
For the record, what the data on HIV stats in Ohio shows is that there was a steep increase in cases that began in 2020, when Trump was still in office, and peaked in 2021, when the Biden administration was still brand new.
None of this matters, of course, since there hasn’t been a single report or study that attributed the rise in HIV cases in the state to the immigrants who live there.
Oh, if young Vance could meet the assistant scapegoater-in-chief he is today.
It’s worth mentioning that, in 2016, Vance considered himself a “never Trumper” Republican, called Trump an “idiot” and “reprehensible,” and compared him to Adolf Hitler. CNN noted that when Vance was asked over the weekend about his change of heart, he said: “The reason that I changed my mind on Donald Trump is actually perfectly highlighted by what’s going on in Springfield. Because the media and the Kamala Harris campaign — they’ve been calling the residents of Springfield racist; they’ve been lying about them. They’ve been saying that they make up these reports of migrants eating geese, and they completely ignore the public health disaster that is unfolding in Springfield at this very minute. You know who hasn’t ignored it? Donald Trump.”
First of all, it’s not that Springfield residents who have complained about these fake incidents are being ignored by the media and Harris. It’s just that Vance expects to be taken at face value that these residents even exist. If they do, in fact, exist, they are likely making these reports up considering the fact that the police in Springfield have reported repeatedly that they have not received any credible 911 reports confirming Vance’s story.
And if those residents are making those stories up, you know who else would call them racist?
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