JD Vance and the future of MAGA
An emerging partial ideological reconceptualization
The selection of J.D. Vance as the Republican Party vice-presidential nominee gives the MAGA movement a potential ideological clarity and intergenerational continuity. The Senator from Ohio is 39 years of age, and he formulates an anti-illegal immigration, anti-woke, patriotic, pro-family, economic nationalism that proposes decisive governmental action to expand American manufacturing and productivity and raise the wages of American workers. He promises to defend abandoned communities in middle America and to defend the interests of workers and the nation, and not the interests of big corporations. He formulates a partial reconceptualization of American ideology, by seeking to bring the Republican Party beyond Reaganism, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and globalism, as he sounds like a classical liberal Democrat in speaking of state action in defense of workers. In this reconceptualization, he is consistent with the 2024 Republican Party Platform, which of course was written…