Conservative Radio Host Rages At JD Vance For Supporting ‘Massive Expansion of Government’ During Debate

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Conservative radio host Erick Erickson pulled no punches on Wednesday morning in hammering Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) over the policy positions he laid out in Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate.

Erickson, who has often been at odds with Trumpist populism, compared Vance to former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale – who President Ronald Reagan crushed in the 1984 presidential election.

“I am still stewing over the debate last night. Why do I wanna vote for a party that supports a massive expansion of government, mandates on businesses, and an industrial policy set by government experts who regularly get everything wrong?” Erickson fumed, adding:

JD Vance advocated the Democratic Party platform of Walter Mondale. The conservative movement in Washington, DC, has decided to reject conservatism and embrace being the Democrat lite party, and that has always been a losing solution because you cannot beat the real thing.

They are even willing to compromise on abortion at the national level now. All of the Trump-Vance agenda just grows a government the Democrats can then use against us.

Erickson is not the first major pundit this year to compare Vance to Mondale. Following Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention in July, NBC News’s chief political analyst Chuck Todd said Vance was voicing “an ideology that would have been very comfortable in the Democratic Party of Walter Mondale in 1984.”

Trump’s choosing of Vance as his vice president sparked much media speculation that corporate America may think twice about supporting the GOP ticket. “JD Vance’s Selection as Trump’s Running Mate Frightens Business Leaders,” read a headline in Time Magazine, for example, while Semafor published an article titled, “Wall Street donors left with few palatable options after JD Vance pick.”