Josh McLaurin, a Democratic candidate for Georgia State House and former law school roommate of Republican Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance, has released a series of text messages from Vance from 2016 in which Vance explains that the GOP, “whether we like it or not, is the party of lower-educated, lower-income white people.”
Vance goes on to describe Donald Trump as “the fruit of the party’s collective neglect. He also describes Trump as “America’s Hitler,” which may have been what secured Trump’s endorsement for Vance, given Trump’s affection for dictators and his keeping Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” on his beside table, according to the first Mrs. Trump.