The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s Trump op-ed from 2016
Peter Wehner said the republished 2016 essay shows Trump’s decline, citing a 30% approval rating, rising prices and cracks in the MAGA base.
- On Saturday, America's 250th anniversary, The Atlantic republished a 10-year-old op-ed by Vice President JD Vance that delivered a blistering rebuke of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
- In the 2016 essay titled "Opioid of the Masses," Vance argued Trump offered an "easy escape" from pain, calling the candidate's promises "the needles in America's collective vein."
- Atlantic writer Peter Wehner revisited the column, noting Vance's past "Never Trump" stance and his comparisons of Trump to "Nixon" or "Hitler."
- Trump's 30% approval rating, rising consumer prices, and a fracturing MAGA base suggest the "comedown Vance predicted" has finally arrived, according to Wehner.
- Wehner described the Vice President as a "teller of hard truths" who transformed into "a peddler of lies," tracing his path from the Senate to the vice presidency.
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When JD Vance Called Trump “Cultural Heroin”
The Atlantic reports: Ten years ago today, in the middle of the presidential campaign, an essay in The Atlantic set out to explain the appeal of Donald Trump. Its author traced that appeal to the social decline and cultural trauma he had known firsthand, in an impoverished childhood. The author, J. D. Vance, had only days earlier published Hillbilly Elegy, which went on to sell roughly 3 million copies and made him, almost overnight, the country…
On the occasion of the American National Day, "The Atlantic" took a devastating essay by J.D. Vance about Donald Trump from the archive and embarrassed the man who ascended to the right hand of the US President.
The Atlantic Publishes JD Vance's 2016 Essay Bashing Trump
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The Atlantic published a piece, Saturday, which was highly critical of President Donald Trump — which may not seem all that surprising… until you notice the byline. The essay — titled “Opioid of the Masses” — was written by none other than Vice President JD Vance. The VP wrote the column in 2016, and The Atlantic republished it Saturday — 10 years to the day after it first ran. In the piece, Vance argued that Trump is effec…
The Atlantic republishes brutal anti-Trump essay for July 4 — its author is JD Vance
On America’s 250th anniversary Saturday, The Atlantic republished a decade-old essay that delivered a blistering rebuke of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump – one that was written by now-Vice President JD Vance.Atlantic writer Peter Wehner revisited the July 4, 2016 column Vance wrote just after the release of his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy." At the time, Vance argued that Trump was exploiting the economic and cultural collapse of working-cl…
The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s Trump op-ed from 2016
The Atlantic on Saturday republished Vice President Vance’s essay, originally published exactly 10 years ago on July 4, reviving some of the more biting comments Vance made about President Trump prior to becoming his second vice president. The original article ran days after Vance published his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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