Vance's comments on 'federal action' left me feeling like I was having a very strange dream

J. D. Vance’s comments on “federal action” to prevent women in red states from crossing state lines to get abortions were amplified by the Harris campaign.

Kamala Harris was actually the co-host of a socialist podcast called Dead Pundits Society (DPS ) and was her successor in this role after she left.

Vance likes to believe that this “populism” is his organic reaction to what he saw as deindustrialized Appalachia.

Frida Ghitis: Many of Vance ’s political views were about the furthest thing imaginable from “populism” She says he was deeply unsympathetic to poor people but cosmopolitan enough to come down on the progressive side of the culture war.

Ghitis asks: How did he become a self-styled right-populist who frames the people he scorned as “welfare queens” in Hillbilly Elegy as victims of deindustrialization.

Julian Zelizer : Sen. Rand Paul's new “populism” isn’t the result of his early experiences in Kentucky , he says.

He says it’s the pseudopopulism of an Ivy Leagueeducated tech bro who was radicalized by the influence of a bunch of deeply strange (and, some, very openly racist) online discourse goblins who orbit around Peter Thiel .

Zelizer says the ideology Vance is spouting has no meaningful connection to the citizens of East Palestine or the hillbillies of Kentucky .