JD Vance rejects Milton Friedman, embraces socialism? 

What does Vice President Vance believe, and what direction will he take the nation if he is elected president in his own right? I, for one, am worried about his viability as the next leader of the GOP, particularly because he seems too enamored with faulty left-wing thinking on the economy.  

At a time when the Democratic Party is being conquered from within by actual socialists — even outright communists like Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Mamdani acolyte who simps for Soviets and terrorists — one might expect the Republican Party to capitalize on this strategic error and campaign against it. Unfortunately, President Trump continues to espouse an economic policy that itself contains far too many concessions to socialism. Even worse, the most likely inheritor of Trump’s throne is someone who is, if anything, considerably to the president’s left on economics.

Vance rarely misses an opportunity to make crystal clear that his embrace of progressive economics is more ideological and deeply held than Trump’s. In an interview last week with Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire, Vance took entirely unnecessary shots at the legendary economist Milton Friedman, whose laissez faire economic ideas were implemented by previous generations of conservatives to great success.  

Vance begins by laughing at and defending Trump’s previous comments about seizing the profits of AI companies. It seems clear that Vance is more committed to this idea than Trump is — even........

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