"Elegy of the village." How Jay di Wans changed roles and views on the path from the “Rusty Belt” to the White House

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Donald Trump decided to the candidate for the post of vice president-together with him, Jay Di Wance, a 39-year-old Senator from Ohio, who harshly criticized Trump during the 2016 campaign, will compete with him. Now Vance and Trump are in tandem, and this union is warmly welcomed by republican businessmen.

Critic Trump, veteran, lawyer and writer

James David Vance was born in 1984 in a poor working family from Middletown, Ohio. This is part of the old industrial heart of the country that finally came to the decline of the old industrial heart. He gave the US political geography a chain of oscillating states, on which the outcome of several previous ones depended and the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections will depend. It is not by chance that the Congress of Republicans, at which Trump declared Wans to his Running Mate, was held in the oscillating Wisconsin, also hooking the Priozeric Industrial District.

Vance spent most of his childhood under the care of his grandmother, since his mother suffered from drug and alcohol dependence. “I always understood that“ address ”and“ house ”are different things,” he will write in the semi -automatic book “Elegy of the village” in 2016. - The address is where we live with the mother and sister, wherever it is. But the house was always alone - Prababushkin House in a quiet valley, in Jackson, Kentukki. ”

After school, in 2003, he entered military service in the US Marine Corps and fell into the war in Iraq - as an army specialist in public relations. There, the politician himself writes, he saw "the whole deceit of the promises of the political establishment."

After the army, Vance graduated from the University of Ohio, known for his scholarship programs (political science and philosophy) and began a political career as an assistant, Republican Senator Bob Schuler. In 2010, he entered the Yale School of Law. It was in Yela that a meeting took place that will change his life. Vance was a lecture by the legendary investor, co -founder of PayPal (and part -time of the ardent Republican and subsequently a Trumpist) Peter Til about the connection of the technological stagnation and decline of American elites.

In 2015-2017, Wence was already working, and then heads the venture company Mithril Capital Tilya, and in 2016 moves to his native Ohio, where he founded his own non-profile OUR OHIO RENEWAL. This is only a cover for his political ambitions, his critics say. One way or another, Vance voters earns glasses as a transmitting link in investment between California and a “rusty belt”.

In the same year, in the midst of the election campaign of Donald Trump, the Elegy of the Rusticanism is released, which became a bestseller and the basis for a poorly adopted film. In his interview with that time, he harshly criticized Trump, publicly calling him an “idiot”, and not publicly, “American Hitler” . Vance claimed that Trump “leads a white working class to a very dark place”, but changed his position by the time he decided to run for the Senate.

Trump supporter, investor and senator

In 2021, Wence will say that “he was mistaken about this guy,” and would call Trump “good president”. Trump will not remain in debt and will support Wans on the primaries, which ultimately helps him to elect a senator from Ohio in 2022. Since then, Vance has remained loyal Trump. He supported the ex-president to run again in January 2023-much earlier than other applicants for the post of vice president, Reuters notes .

Vance not only supported Trump, but also helped to attract rich donors to his company as “his own man” in Silicon Valley. He does not lose connections with Til - and subsequently with the founder of AOL Steve Case, although he founds his own Narya Capital company. Vance's proximity to the technological industry helped to lure the Republicans even former donor Hillary Clinton, an investor and billionaire chamat Palihapiti, who organized a fundraising in support of Trump.

What are they saying about the candidacy of Vance?

Large investors of Silicon Valley have the choice of Trump. Ilon Musk called Vance’s extension “an excellent solution” and, as WSJ writes , intends to invest a large amount in the Republican campaign - $ 45 million monthly. Former Vance colleagues from venture companies also met the news with enthusiasm. At the same time, Trump expects that his choice will attract not only millionaire investors, but also to Vance close to Vensu by origin of the Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota and their borders. ” The first three states on this list are fluctuating.

The current President Joe Biden expectedly criticized the “clone of Trump” and said that together they “want to increase taxes for middle -class families, simultaneously achieving a greater reduction in taxes for the rich.” Biden also recalled that Trump, former President Mike Pens, had a quarrel in the Biden Vice President, former President Mike Penin, due to his refusal to block the affirmation of Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections.

“He is absolutely, crystal anti -libella at the level of instincts,” Politico quotes Wansa's acquaintance by Yle. - And this is not an insult, but a technical description. He completely does not believe in enlightened liberalism like “We are all independent individuals emanating from the needs of self -realization and our own interests”.

Vance himself wrote that the Irish-Shottland roots that gave him good and bad qualities feel in himself: “We do not love strangers and those who do not look like us-those who do not look like that behave so, but especially who does not say that.”

The views of the candidate for key issues

Vance can be the third youngest vice president in the history of the United States. He widely separates Trump’s position, starting with the assault on the Capitol and ending with abortion. The senator opposes the right to abortion, even in the case of incest or rape, making an exception only for cases when pregnancy threatens a woman's life. Vance also harshly criticizes the migration policy, arguing that along with illegal immigrants, more “drugs and voters-democrats” arrive in the country, and their cheap work reduces the salaries of US citizens.

Vance opposes any further assistance to Ukraine and for the speedy end of the war. “I have to be honest with you: it does not care that one way or another will happen to Ukraine,” he said . Even the recent Russian blow to the children's hospital in Kiev did not change the point of view of the senator, because "America has no opportunity to respond to every tragedy that exists in the world." The appointment of a senator from Ohio Deputy Prime Minister will be a “disaster” for Ukraine, one of the high-ranking European officials told Politico.

With Silicon Valley, not everything is smooth either. Vance criticized Bigtech-Companis, stating that they had too much power and influence on politics, and welcomed the antimonopoly measures of the Biden administration in the field of technology.