J. D. Vance and the Empty Promises of Conservative Economic Populism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : When I asked him to identify some breaking points between national conservatives and reform conservatives, he cited three: the former's rejection of free trade, their skepticism about economic growth as a promoter of working-class living standards, and their belief that reviving manufacturing employment is the key to reviving American communities.
48% : During Vance's brief time in the Senate, he expressed support for bipartisan pieces of legislation designed to strengthen the regulation of commercial railroads, eliminate tax breaks for corporate mergers, and break the Visa-Mastercard stranglehold on credit-card payments and reduce fees.
42% : Of course, being a junior senator and attaching your name to legislation that has little chance of being enacted -- none of those have bills passed -- is very different from being Vice-President and chief lickspittle to Trump.
33% : Vance criticized NAFTA, decried "unlimited global trade," gave a shout-out to Social Security, used the term "Big Business" pejoratively, conspicuously avoided the budget deficit and the national debt, and proclaimed that Trump's G.O.P. was done "catering to Wall Street."

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