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This week, the news broke that J.D. Vance, who is Donald Trump's pick as running mate,

repeatedly suggested in 2016 that he believed Trump committed sexual assault.

Vance has since softened his views of course, but in a critical way,

this captures something really essential about him. He knows exactly what he has now attached himself to in Trump,

but he sees Trump as a vehicle to accomplish some really radical societal transformations.

The Tech writer Gil Duran has a good piece in the New Republic digging deep into the right-wing worldview that animates vans which is

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