Conservative Pundit Roasts Trump VP Finalist J.D. Vance: He’s the ‘Avatar of the Incel, Alt-Right’ Faction of GOP

Stephen Hayes, the CEO of the right-of-center news and commentary site The Dispatch and an NBC News political analyst, minced no words in his evaluation of Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), a finalist in Donald Trump’s veepstakes, during a recent edition of The Dispatch Podcast.

“I’ve actually done a fair amount of reporting on this this week, and this is Donald Trump, so anything could happen; I think it’s basically down to two candidates,” began Hayes. “I think it’s J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio. I still think  Doug Burgum is possible, apparently Burgum has indicated a willingness, in his conversations with Trump, to spend a bunch of his quite considerable personal fortune on behalf of the ticket, which you can imagine might appeal to Donald Trump.”

“But according to people who are familiar with his thinking and who have talked to him about this stuff, I think he’s focused on J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio. And I do think that choice has profound implications for the Republican Party and the future of the country,” submitted the conservative commentator.

He continued:

J.D. Vance is in effect sort of the avatar of the incel, alt-right, angry, you know, populist conservative males. He sort of represents a faction of the Republican Party and the populist right that thinks Donald Trump is a good first step to getting the country where it needs to go and I think would push Donald Trump in all sorts of very unhealthy directions — bad for the country, bad for the Republican Party.

Hayes went on to submit that Rubio is a “much more confounding person” given his past criticism of both Trump’s character and policies during the 2016 Republican presidential primary.

Notably, Vance also used to be an outspoken critic of Trump, even speculating that he might turn out to “be America’s Hitler” back in 2016.”

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