JD Vance was the GOP’s signal flare — the up-from-nowhere firebrand poised to be the next president, the man who channeled MAGA’s angry base and packaged anti-interventionism like the GOP’s freshest creed. He screamed culture war, decried foreign entanglements, and surfed the hard-right wave better than anyone. For a moment, it looked like “Vance-ism” would be the Republican future, the ideological “North Star” of the party that once worshipped Donald Trump.

Then came Trumproe — not a policy paper, not a think-tank manifesto, but a live war game in real time where power is not talked about — it moves. And while Vance slunk to the corners of social feeds, adjusting his image and echoing “non-intervention” like a TikTok slogan, someone else stepped into the void and grabbed what leadership actually looks like in........

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