When Populism Isn’t Popular

Ohio Senate candidate J. D. Vance has found himself on the wrong side of Republican voters and even some of his own donors over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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J. D. Vance speaks at the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Ariz., April 17, 2021.

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With one month to go until the Ohio Republican primary, Senate candidate J. D. Vance took the day off from the campaign trail in order to travel to Washington, D.C., and speak at a paleoconservative foreign-policy conference attended by fewer than 200 people.

The mood of Vance’s speech and the conference in general was that of an embattled, and at times embittered, minority.

John McCormack

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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