Recent quotes:

It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids | CNN Politics

“There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life,” Vance said in November 2020 on a conservative podcast. “And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives.” “You know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable,” he said. “And of course, you talk about going on Twitter – final point I’ll make is you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.”
#children #vance - cnn.com

Usha Vance Has Helped Her Husband J.D. Vance Chart His Political Path - The New York Times

In 2013, two students at Yale Law School decided to organize a discussion group on the subject of “social decline in white America.” One of them was J.D. Vance, currently the Republican candidate in Ohio for a U.S. Senate seat. For him, the subject matter was intensely personal: He had grown up in an economically depressed area of Ohio, and was raised in large part by his grandparents as his mother struggled with addiction. He had lived the material. The other student behind the project was Usha Chilukuri, the child of Indian immigrants, from an ethnically diverse San Diego suburb. For her, white social decline may have been an intellectual interest — but it was one with special significance. She was then Mr. Vance’s girlfriend, now his wife, known as Usha Vance.
#trump #racism #vance - nytimes.com

(4) Can J.D. Vance's Populist Crusade Succeed?

Indeed, when Vance praised Khan, it was at an event called “Remedy Fest” put on by a tech incubator called YCombinator, and oriented around the question of how to break up Google if the corporation was found to be acting unlawfully. To have a prominent 39 year-old Republican Senator show up at a conference whose sole focus is thinking through what a post-Google dominant internet would look like is a big political statement about what the younger faction of the right might look like.
#populism #vance - thebignewsletter.com