When Vance declared that the United States is not only a set of principles but also a homeland, he was positing that the peoples of middle America, including the people of Appalachia, have a shared history of building homes in America and defending their homes and families as well as the nation as a whole. Yet they have been abandoned by…
When Vance declared that the United States is not only a set of principles but also a homeland, he was positing that the peoples of middle America, including the people of Appalachia, have a shared history of building homes in America and defending their homes and families as well as the nation as a whole. Yet they have been abandoned by short-sighted and anti-national elite-driven economic policies, while they are erroneously called privileged by the media. He declared that they deserve leaders who attend to their interests and needs. I interpreted it as a call for inclusion, not an implicit advocacy of exclusion.
It seems to me that Vance is possibly working on a partial ideological reconceptualization, taking us beyond the divisive and dysfunctional ideological civil war between myopic conservatism and neoconservatism and toxic leftist superficiality. However, like all sides in the ideological civil war, he does not escape the assumptions of imperialism.
When Vance declared that the United States is not only a set of principles but also a homeland, he was positing that the peoples of middle America, including the people of Appalachia, have a shared history of building homes in America and defending their homes and families as well as the nation as a whole. Yet they have been abandoned by short-sighted and anti-national elite-driven economic policies, while they are erroneously called privileged by the media. He declared that they deserve leaders who attend to their interests and needs. I interpreted it as a call for inclusion, not an implicit advocacy of exclusion.
It seems to me that Vance is possibly working on a partial ideological reconceptualization, taking us beyond the divisive and dysfunctional ideological civil war between myopic conservatism and neoconservatism and toxic leftist superficiality. However, like all sides in the ideological civil war, he does not escape the assumptions of imperialism.
https://charlesmckelvey.substack.com/p/jd-vance-and-the-future-of-maga