Vice President JD Vance warned during a Wednesday interview that if Republicans don’t fix the economic missteps of recent decades, young people will elect a socialist president.Podcaster Joe Rogan revealed during his interview with Vance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" that the rise of democratic socialists in politics has left him shaken, declaring, "Those f---ing people scare me."Vance replied by noting that in his book "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," he laid out the historic norms of a Christian idea of a political economy that has been lost in recent American politics, one which was the norm throughout most of western history and avoids the pitfalls of totally free markets and socialism.Vance suggested that even if he detests socialism, conservatives should try to understand why young people are drawn to it.He proceeded to call out how the U.S.
in recent decades has "run the experiment where we just try to do everything with low-wage foreigners, whether they're in the United States via illegal immigration or whether they're outside the United States via offshoring and outsourcing.And what it has led to is, I think, a society where socialism is a bit on the rise."MORNING GLORY: THE VP’S NEW BOOK 'COMMUNION' IS NOT WHAT THE BELTWAY EXPECTEDVice President JD Vance spoke to Joe Rogan about the threat of socialism in the United States.
(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)"We were left in quite a hole by 40 years of bad policy," Vance said of his work to undo those underlying issues, arguing that the economic crisis of today cannot just be blamed on the previous Democratic administration."This is 40 years of failed bipartisan leadership which has created, really, a kind of shell corporation out of the United States of America.
We don't make enough of our own stuff.We don't have enough self-reliance.
Our workers don't have enough bargaining power.That has led, in a lot of ways, to this kind of socialism fervor.
And we have to keep fixing these problems....