{"id":602005,"date":"2021-07-24T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T00:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602005"},"modified":"2021-07-24T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T00:05:24","slug":"jd-vance-blames-the-childless-left-for-the-decline-of-the-american-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-blames-the-childless-left-for-the-decline-of-the-american-family\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Blames The \u2018Childless Left\u2019 For The Decline Of The American Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fjd-vance-blames-the-childless-left-for-the-decline-of-the-american-family%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=602005&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6980-scaled-e1627094438415.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Author and Republican Ohio senate candidate JD Vance blamed \u201cthe childless left\u201d for the decline of the American family during a Friday speech.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute\u2019s (ISI) \u201cThe Future of American Political Economy\u201d conference,&nbsp;he reframed the right-left cultural war as a class war, where American elites obsessed with credentialism and career-making have invested only in themselves, rather than investing in the country\u2019s future by fostering healthy families and having children.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his speech, the Daily Caller also had the opportunity to ask Vance about his campaign and how he might go about empowering middle-class American families if elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take aim at the left, specifically the childless left. Because I think the rejection of the American family is perhaps the most pernicious and most evil thing that the left has done in this country,\u201d Vance remarked at the ISI conference. Vance pointed out that aside from being members of the next generation of Democratic Party leaders, the one thing Vice President Kamala Harris, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg have in common is they do not have children of their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is this just a normal fact of American life? That the leaders of our country should be people who don\u2019t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?\u201d Vance asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.466876971609\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At American Compass conference, JD Vance suggests giving parents an extra vote for each child under 18 they have. (Give each child a vote, \u201ccontrolled\u201d by the parents.) He also says The Atlantic and the Washington Post will mock him for this, so pretend I\u2019m not here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel\/status\/1418740204077305857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vance noted that his frustration with couples or adults who did not have children were not with people who were unable to do so because of medical and other reasons. After making that acknowledgement, Vance said, \u201cBut, it\u2019s something else to build a political movement invested, theoretically, in the future of this country, when not a single one of them actually has any physical commitment to the future of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance then extended this phenomenon to the media as well, saying, \u201cwhat you find consistently is that many of the most unhappy, and most miserable, and most angry people in our media are childless adults,\u201d Vance said, \u201clet\u2019s just be honest about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance went on to say that conservatives shouldn\u2019t just care about family formation in the U.S. to cheer up the same left-wing elites who routinely disparaged everyday Americans. \u201cWe are not just worried about the lack of babies because it means our media is miserable and because it means our leaders are miserable. We\u2019re worried about babies because babies are good, and a country that has children is a healthy country that\u2019s worth living in,\u201d said Vance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe care about children because we\u2019re not sociopaths,\u201d Vance told the audience, repeating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/towards-a-pro-worker-pro-family-conservatism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular line<\/a> from prior speeches that addressed the decline of the American family. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/jd-vance-ohio-senate-2022-big-tech-america-first-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Every \u2018America First\u2019 GOP Voter Should Be Watching This Potential Senate Candidate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a number of Republican senators have released plans that would encourage larger and more stable American families, such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney. The Caller asked Vance, if elected, which one of these family plans Vance would be most likely to support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Josh Hawley\u2019s the most based on the details I\u2019ve seen, just because I think it is biased toward married parents, and one of the things we have to do is promote not just families, but healthy families. So, the more resources we can get to two-parent families, the better. I think there are good ideas in a lot of these plans, and the question really is how to get this stuff done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance had a few ideas of his own on how to encourage family creation in the U.S. During his speech at the ISI conference, he cited policies enacted in Hungary under President Viktor Orban where loans were provided to new married couples and then forgiven if they later stayed together and had children. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we do that here?\u201d Vance asked the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Vance also addressed the opioid crisis, an issue that has plagued communities across heartland America and has personally affected Vance\u2019s own family&nbsp;as well as numerous other Ohio families and communities. While the opioid crisis experienced a slowdown and even decline during the Trump administration, opioid overdose deaths surged amid the COVID-19 pandemic to the highest levels ever in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Caller asked what could be done to put an end to the opioid crisis, and Vance argued that the main focus had to be to \u201cget the southern border under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously have to get people who are addicted into treatment, and hope that we can get them recovered. But, importantly, if you have four times as much fentanyl coming into the country today as you did this time last year, you\u2019re going to have a lot of people dying of this poison,\u201d Vance added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way to get around the fact that if you have a ton of a deadly drug in your community, its going to start killing people, and that\u2019s why we have to get the southern border under control because a lot of it is being made overseas and then being shipped through our porous southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his speech later that evening, Vance told the dinner attendees the story of an elderly woman he had met in Ohio, who he said was raising her grandson after losing her daughter to drug addiction. The number one issue this woman cares about, Vance said, was securing the southern border \u201cbecause she doesn\u2019t want the same poison that took her daughter from her, to take her grandbaby from her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance claimed that it was important for the Republican Party to not just talk about these issues on cable news, but to cement itself as the party of the middle class by actually delivering on policies that would protect American families from forces attempting to upend it.<\/p>\n<p>The Caller asked Vance what he made of a growing number of Republican candidates running for office with middle- and working-class backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, who made the journey himself from a working class community in Ohio to Yale Law School, replied, \u201cI think it\u2019s a couple of things. The Republican Party is becoming a more working- and middle-class party, and understandably people want folks who they can identify with and take their interests to heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, because of how corrupt our elite university system is, I think people recognize that a lot of people who come from that elite corridor, and spend their entire life in it, are just not going to represent them super well,\u201d Vance added. \u201cI recognized first hand that a lot of the way we train members of our elite class is to not care that much about the country and the people who live in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Younger members of the American elite, Vance told the Caller, \u201cneed to recognize that they can either choose to be part of the elite club, or they can choose to serve the gross majority of people who live in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to decide. Do you want to be a member of that elite group, or do you actually want to do something good for the country,\u201d said Vance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1298701298701\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe Biden doesn\u2019t understand how inflation hurts the working-class and seniors on fixed incomes\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JDVance1<\/a> does and wants to do something about it.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/scMjieswhU\">pic.twitter.com\/scMjieswhU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGirdusky\/status\/1418303639031066634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vance took some criticism following the release of his New York Times bestselling memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/hillbilly-elegy-j-d-vance?variant=32207704391714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em><\/a>, but the attention and criticisms Vance has gotten since announcing his bid for senate in Ohio have been ratcheted up to eleven. He has become a common subject for opinion writers at several of the country\u2019s largest newspapers. \u201cThere are a lot of negative stories about JD Vance\u201d going around, Vance joked during his remarks at the ISI conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Caller asked Vance how he and his family have adjusted to campaign life. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of work, but it\u2019s a lot of fun,\u201d Vance told the Caller, chuckling. \u201cI think my wife knew what she was getting herself into when we decided to do this together. It definitely requires some sacrifices from the family, but we\u2019re doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur youngest loves the campaign stuff. He loves to meet people, while the oldest is a little bit more shy\u201d while out on the campaign trail with mom and dad, Vance added.<\/p>\n<p>As Vance has entered the partisan political arena, liberals writing for the op-ed pages of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/newssearch\/?query=JD%20Vance&amp;btn-search=&amp;sort=Relevance&amp;datefilter=All%20Since%202005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a> haven\u2019t been Vance\u2019s only source of criticism. Vance has received criticism from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/07\/moral-collapse-jd-vance\/619428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neoconservatives<\/a>, on the one hand, who condemn Vance\u2019s embrace of Trump, and allegedly pro-Trump candidates for not being Trumpian enough.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Mandel, another Ohio senate&nbsp;candidate, previously appeared on Mark Levin\u2019s radio show and <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/e6051db3-824a-4c88-9471-25ef415cbf02\/episodes\/d816dbb4-2c7d-4106-b745-35f7c4a31864\/mark-levin-podcast-mark-levin-audio-rewind---7-14-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proclaimed<\/a>, \u201cwe can no longer afford to elect Mitt Romneys, Liz Cheneys or these JD Vances.\u201d Vance said that he had paid little mind to this line of attack from Mandel and others, saying \u201cI\u2019m going to run my own campaign because I think I have something to offer to the voters of Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into mud fights with people who are too obsessed with me. That\u2019s not the way I\u2019m going to do business because, at the end of the day, its not about me, its not about Josh Mandel, its not about anybody else. It\u2019s about the voters of Ohio,\u201d Vance concluded. \u201cI will say, if you look at the way the mainstream media has attacked me versus the other candidates, it\u2019s pretty clear who they see as the biggest threat in this race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and Republican Ohio senate candidate JD Vance blamed \u201cthe childless left\u201d for the decline of the American family during a Friday speech.In his remarks at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602005","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}