Ben Shapiro: J.D. Vance's speech to the RNC was "very different from what he wrote in Hillbilly Elegy”
Shapiro on J.D. Vance: “It is very difficult to distinguish his take on economics from Elizabeth Warren's or Bernie Sanders's. ... What's kind of strange about that is he connected a very different policy with his story in Hillbilly Elegy.”
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From the July 18, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): But it's really on economics that J.D. Vance is is truly heterodox. And what's fascinating about J.D. Vance's approach that if you listen to his speech on economics, it is very difficult to distinguish his take on economics from Elizabeth Warren's or Bernie Sanders's. That's just the reality of the situation. There was no talk last night about free markets, about innovation, about dynamic capitalism, about job creation by the private sector. And all of that was basically left by the wayside. And that is, in fact, a shift for J.D. Vance in terms of his focus. So he connected his story with his policy, but what's kind of strange about that is he connected a very different policy with his story in Hillbilly Elegy. And this is sort of the fascinating thing about J.D. Vance. And, of course, as he mentioned last night in his own speech, there is in fact a a rather interesting conflict emerging inside the Republican party about the philosophy of economics that it seeks to embrace. J.D. Vance's philosophy of economics looks much more like the Democratic Party circa 1989 than it does like the Republican Party for most of my lifetime. It is not a free market economics pitch. And, again, it's very different from what he wrote in Hillbilly Elegy.