Since Biden appears to be on the way out we need a new thread on whether or not his successor will be Trump and what he represents.
Here’s an extract from the speech to the Republican Party Convention yesterday by JD Vance, Trump’s running mate as vice-president:
“I grew up in a place that the ruling class in Washington had cast aside,” Vance told the crowd. “But in these forgotten corners of our nation, people don’t ask for much—they just want a fair shot and a government that works for them.” (https://time.com/6999989/jd-vance-trump-vice-president-running-mate-rnc-speech/)
And a comment on it:
“his vision of a class struggle between disenfranchised, scorned workers and those who brutally govern them, from Washington.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/18/j-d-vance-insists-on-working-class-roots-in-first-speech-as-trump-s-running-mate_6688500_4.html
Classic populism.
But he’s backed by the same sort of shady vulture capitalists as financed the Brexit campaign in Britain and who are more interested in having less government interference in their profit-making activities than in improving the lot of the working class (in fact they are not interested in that at all).
Will the real J.D. Vance please stand up?