Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes

JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a great book and now a movie. But read the book first.

The recent alleged assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump has up-ended the virtue-signalling left’s rainbow lollipop la-la land. Trump has emerged as courageous, not just politically, but also physically. Compared to the noticeably ageing President Biden, Trump appears most capable of leading the free world.

Alexandra Marshall in the Unfiltered newsletter:

And Michael de Percy says that new VP JD Vance will ‘pull the socialist wool from our eyes’. The Republicans are still a little bit split on the Vance issue. I wouldn’t say it’s half-and-half, but certainly Vance’s blue-tinged background is holding a few back. It’ll be interesting how this race plays out...

Terry Barnes in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Your scribe agrees with Nikki Haley at the Republican convention: you can agree with someone, but don’t have to agree with him about everything. Thus your scribe agrees to disagree with our editor-in-chief on J D Vance. Yes, Vance offers an exciting VP package, a top communicator and, at 39, he is the same age as Richard Nixon when Ike selected him in 1952. But is he too inexperienced in government and, more to the point, too much like Trump to balance the Donald, both on the ticket and in the White House? It’s now done, and time will tell, but Michael de Percy’s in no doubt about a Trump-Vance ticket being an absolute ripper (though did he really have to take a dig at the great John Howard?), and Tim Stanley goes wild about J D in World.

My latest in The Spectator Australia,  Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes