Vance Once Worried Trump Would Be “America’s Hitler”

“But I’m not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would.

“We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect. I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” – Trump-endorsed US Senate candidate J.D. Vance, in a just unearthed 2016 text to his former Yale roommate.

That roommate, Josh McLaurin, is a now a Democratic Georgia state rep. “America’s Hitler” is now trending on Twitter.

The screenshot below is @JDVance1’s unfiltered explanation from 2016 of the breakdown in Republican politics that he now personally is trying to exploit.

The “America’s Hitler” bit is at the end.

The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith. pic.twitter.com/79Z0qSWFWF

— Josh McLaurin (@JoshforGeorgia) April 18, 2022