Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay calling Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses.”
Now, he’s the #1 pusher of Trump’s poison. This July 4, let’s remember the words of a man who sold his soul to sell out his nation.
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