Crash Course: Donald Trump and JD Vance: Decoding a double dose of right-wing racism

Old-fashioned "paleoconservative" racism and neocon-flavored pseudoscience, united at last on the 2024 GOP ticket Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZDk3ejF2eDYwby8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkdyZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbm14NXplN3IwZC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdjA1cjN6bWM3aS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZGdyNTdjazJhOS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNTVjcjY4ZTl4dS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNHU4Y3hwcHpmeS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ Donald Trump and JD Vance: Decoding a double dose of right-wing racism There are commonalities between Vance and the neocons. Given the conservative fantasy that white men are the new oppressed minority, Vance's heartland background signifies a "model minority" member who’s made it. But Vance also casts Appalachian culture more broadly in a caricatured, negative light — a fact that most elite commentators have missed, but which [experts on the region have not](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvczhpbnBzcXFzai8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). Finally, Vance's wife is Indian American, representing another "model minority" group reflected in such diverse figures as Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, among many others. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdGFuYXBwa3Y1Mi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkdyZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZmlzbjI4b3F4My8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvOXdwZzN2bGd1ei8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsva2ZnY3RjdmgwaS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbGZ6YnF4ZzlwaC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ MAGA has a Catholic gender gap problem — and it could spell trouble for Trump From Michael Devaney: If lay Catholics are tepid in their support, many clergy are downright hostile toward the president, adopting what Timothy Busch of the right-wing Napa Institute calls [“in-your-face Catholicism](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNnp2cmpkc3hvaC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~).” A large majority of the Council of Catholic Bishops [voted to deny Biden communion](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbGMxOHEzNGlwNS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) with some priests claiming that “[you can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbWNjOXZ1NmZmbi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~)." A few clergy [believe](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdnc1aHIxeG1kOC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) that Catholic leaders discredited the legitimacy of Biden’s presidency and that this helped give “rise to the violence at the U.S. Capitol.” Who could miss the Christian symbols on display at the insurrection, including a statue of the [Infant of Prague](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZjZhbWxlZ244bi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkd1cDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~)? [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRopaq6P0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZmE2dndoN2Zrei8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dDFlcGFwZmVkdyZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmu7slw2Z9lUIzUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). 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