J.D. Vance on Socialism: We Can Fix the Problem by Doubling Down on Donald Trump’s Economic Nationalism

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VANCE: "They’re not promising you industry. They're not promising you good jobs. They're not promising self-sufficiency and a good industrial economy. What they're promising is redistribution. Again, we’ve seen this in Europe and the United States. The idea that you can build real prosperity by just redistributing assets from one group to another group, that’s not how you build real prosperity. You have to actually sustain the foundation of the economy. That’s what the the president has worked us towards for the past 18 months. It’s going to pay dividends. But I think — again, Laura, this is an important point — a lot of Americans look at this rising tide of socialism and say, 'How did we get here?' We got here by 40 years of bipartisan leaders selling our industrial base to foreign countries, allowing low-wage immigrants to come in and compete with Americans for jobs. By destroying the foundation of the middle class, that’s how you got socialism. How you fix that problem is by doubling down on Donald Trump’s economic nationalism, not going back to the way we’ve done things for the past 40 years."