{"id":2614598,"date":"2026-06-16T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jd-vance-book-praises-trumps-rebellion-against-gop-donors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:16:28","slug":"new-jd-vance-book-praises-trumps-rebellion-against-gop-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jd-vance-book-praises-trumps-rebellion-against-gop-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"New JD Vance book praises Trump&#8217;s &#8216;rebellion&#8217; against GOP donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-jd-vance-book-praises-trumps-rebellion-against-gop-donors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2614598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>JD vance, Vice President, attributes donald Trump\u2019s political success to focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signals-support-for-amazon-workers-vote-to-unionize\/\" title=\"Biden Signals Support For Amazon Workers\u2019 Vote To Unionize\">working-class voters<\/a> rather than business elites, as discussed in his memoir emphasizing his Catholic faith. He suggests that if Vance runs for president in 2028, he may face opposition from some Republican donors and customary conservatives. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >vance criticizes big-business republicans<\/a> and explores how the decline of Christianity has led economics to be seen as a source of moral answers, often misused by party elites. His book, &#8220;communion,&#8221; centers on his return to christianity and Catholic social teachings, advocating social conservatism over free-market economics. Vance praises Trump for reshaping the GOP coalition by aligning with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rooke-jd-vance-confronts-democrats-with-a-looming-existential-threat\/\" title=\"ROOKE: ... confronts Democrats with a looming existential threat\">working-class interests<\/a> over business interests. He defends traditional social values, supports pro-labor policies like union outreach, and criticizes libertarian criticisms of certain social policies like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ... Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">child tax credit<\/a>. Vance also emphasizes the moral and community importance of work, opposing progressive ideas like worldwide basic income. While he aligns with trump&#8217;s populist approach, he also promotes Catholic social principles, potentially facing challenges against GOP donor interests as he considers future political endeavors, including a possible presidential run.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\">JD Vance<\/a> attributed President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s political success to prioritizing the Republican Party\u2019s working-class voters over its \u201cbusiness elites\u201d in a new <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/books\/\">memoir<\/a> of his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/catholicism\/\">Catholic faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Vance runs for president in 2028, he is likely to find himself squaring off against some of his party\u2019s own donors and traditional economic conservatives.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4606158\/rubio-newsom-meet-fifa-world-cup-game-us-paraguay\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Rubio and Newsom set to meet at US-Paraguay World Cup game<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4600482\/ro-khanna-graham-platner-controversy-endorsement-2028\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Ro Khanna downplays concerns Graham Platner endorsement will hurt him in 2028<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4598793\/bernie-sanders-heir-2028\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>No heir apparent: Progressives split over who carries Bernie Sanders\u2019s torch in 2028<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The broadsides against big-business Republicans come in a chapter taking issue with professional economists more broadly, titled \u201cA Dismal Science.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[A]s the decline in Christianity has left us without a shared moral language, economics has stepped into the vacuum,\u201d Vance writes in <em>Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith<\/em>. \u201cWe pretend there are scientific answers to questions of values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance cites his stepmother, \u201ca devout evangelical and committed Republican,\u201d lamenting that she found herself voting for \u201cthe party of the rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd something happened in the 1990s, as Christian conservatives fused with the Republican Party, is that we were taken advantage of,\u201d Vance, 41, continues. \u201cMost Christians don\u2019t care about lower taxes for global corporations or institutional investors. They may have been actively hostile to those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance credits Trump with reorienting the Republican electoral coalition. \u201cIndeed, one of the subtexts of the Trump rebellion in the Republican Party in 2016 was that business elites out the working-class members of their party cared far more about factory jobs than abstract libertarian economics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the book is largely about Vance\u2019s return to Christianity and conversion to Catholicism, he also at times applies Catholic social teachings to political questions and prioritizes social conservatism over the low-tax, low-regulation economic variety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time Vance is releasing his new book, former Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\/\">Mike Pence<\/a> is promoting his own <em>What Conservatives Believe<\/em>, which defends Reaganite economic and social conservatism from Trumpian innovations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pence served as vice president under Trump from 2017 to 2021 and was his running mate in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He unsuccessfully sought the 2024 Republican nomination, but failed to gain any traction and dropped out before the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iowa\/\">Iowa<\/a> caucuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the reasons Donald Trump\u2019s first campaign took the country by storm is that he spoke in visceral, moral terms about basic fairness: America was getting \u2018ripped off\u2019 by other nations stealing our industrial base; the United States needed to reform its health care system in a way to ensure that no one \u2018died in the streets,\u2019\u201d Vance writes. \u201cIt\u2019s hysterical to look back at the think pieces written during the 2016 election \u2014 for example, in <em>National Review<\/em>, attacking Donald Trump for endorsing \u2018protectionism\u2019 or \u2018socialized medicine\u2019 \u2014\u00a0and realize that the very people who pretended to speak for Republican voters had no idea what Republican voters thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance is supportive of Trump\u2019s overtures to union workers. \u201c[W]hile some of critics on the left attack our administration for being insufficiently pro-labor, the most strident critics of our policy come from the right, where Republicans criticize us for being too accommodating to the labor lobby,\u201d he writes. When Teamsters Union President Sean O\u2019Brien spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention, \u201csome GOP donors complained that he sounded like a socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president ignored these complaints,\u201d Vance continues. \u201cI thought Sean\u2019s arguments echoed a lot of the themes from traditional Christian social teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, Vance takes up for the child tax credit in the latest Trump tax cuts against supply-side critics. \u201cMany of these policies have been criticized by libertarian members of the Republican coalition,\u201d he writes, citing a <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>piece he said argued that \u201cit\u2019s equally defensible to provide a tax credit to parents of a dog as it is to parents of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He concludes, \u201cOf course, I think children have a different role in society than dogs because I am blessed with both a heart and a brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4605503\/rubio-somber-ufc-world-polarized\/\"><strong>RUBIO GETS SOMBER AT UFC EVENT, SAYS WORLD IS SO POLARIZED THERE ARE FEW THINGS THAT \u2018BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance also defends the dignity of work against progressive policies like universal basic income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI pointed out that most major religions, as well as basic common sense, draw a distinction between earning a living for yourself and having it provided to you,\u201d he writes. \u201cA job isn\u2019t just a source of a wage; it also gives people something to do, allows them to feel accomplished, and provides community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Vance\u2019s arguments with the GOP donor class could come up as he tries to raise money as the Republican National Committee finance chairman in the midterm elections, as well as in a possible presidential campaign later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance credits Trump\u2019s success to focusing on working-class voters over elites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2614599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26075762631292.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32557,32319,32082,5894,3911],"class_list":["post-2614598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-book-review","tag-donald-trump","tag-jd-vance","tag-politics","tag-republican"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26075762631292.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614602,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614598\/revisions\/2614602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}