Column: It’s hard sharing a party with Trump or Vance. They taint the right’s good ideas
LA TimesVance and former President Trump are so unpopular that even the best policy proposals wither from association with them. The stolen election lie is a symptom of this delusion: “Trump couldn’t have lost; the election must have been rigged.” This makes the Greenland effect particularly insidious because conservative ideas, once associated with Trump, often become hard to sell for even gifted politicians. As Washington Post columnist Jim Geraghty wrote two weeks ago, “Picking Vance is as close as Trump can get to doubling down on himself.” I generally agree with this analysis, but it misses one key difference between Trump and Vance. This helps explain why most of Trump’s MAGA imitators — folks like Kari Lake, Blake Masters, Herschel Walker — bombed in 2022. But the panic was utterly predictable precisely because its proponents, including Vance, have deliberately cast it as a radical “second American Revolution” that will be “ bloodless ” only if the left doesn’t resist, in the words of Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation.
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