JD Vance Has His Reasons

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington on politics and demographics.

Vice President JD Vance, by far the front-runner in the contest for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, has become the leading elected official aligned with a movement questioning the founding principles of American democracy.

In sharp contrast to his political partner, President Trump, who governs from the gut, the vice president has imbibed many of MAGA’s political theories and made them his own. His steady shift to the right has been driven by a deepening........

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