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And as David Frum points out, if Vance truly cared about the blue collar left behind or young men with few opportunities, he wouldn’t be fighting to hard to keep regulations away from Crypto, an industry designed to prey on people with a lack of financial sophistication combined with an above average appetite for risk, ie young men and people with fewer options than the middle classes

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“and to violate the constitution by defying the supreme court when it invariably acts to stop him).”

Sorry James but no, the court will do no such thing, haven’t you seen their recent decisions, the MAGA 5 + Robert’s on the court have now decided to play the same role that the Guardian Council plays in Iran, robed religious zealots who decide which Presidents get to enact their agenda and which ones they will deny that right too

A 2nd Trump term Supreme Court will rule in favour of broad executive powers with enough opt-outs to allow Trump to do as he pleases but give themselves a way to block future Democratic Presidents doing the same

And Vance hasn’t evolved, he’s just stopped lying, he said what he thought he needed to say pre 2016 to rise in the GOP now he does the same, there is zero reason to believe that it’s this version that’s playing a role, it’s far more likely the one a decade ago was

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