{"id":969748,"date":"2021-11-04T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969748"},"modified":"2021-11-04T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:58:55","slug":"j-d-vance-lesson-of-virginia-is-dont-avoid-the-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-d-vance-lesson-of-virginia-is-dont-avoid-the-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance: Lesson of Virginia Is &#039;Don&#039;t Avoid the Culture War&#039;"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fj-d-vance-lesson-of-virginia-is-dont-avoid-the-culture-war%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=969748&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\/11\/AP_21183025723429-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">J.D. Vance, author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture\/dp\/0062300555?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, said the lesson of Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial election is that Republicans must fight the \u201cculture war\u201d \u2014 particularly on matters involving children\u2019s education, such as \u201ctransgender ideology,\u201d \u201cCritical Race Theory,\u201d and \u201cthe masking debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t avoid the culture war,\u201d Vance said on Thursday\u2019s edition of SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> with host Alex Marlow. \u201cFor so long, I think Republican officials have been worried that the culture war is their electoral enemy or at least a weakness for them, and yet, it turns out that a lot of our voters are voting around things like whether their kids are being indoctrinated in schools, and whether their kids are being told that there are 40 or 50 or 80 genders.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cI really think that but for Glenn Youngkin being willing to lean into the culture war around Critical Race Theory, I don\u2019t think he would have won. So we should take the lesson that if you actually want to win in this country, you have to defend your voters. You have to defend their values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Republicans] have been running away from the culture wars. It turns out the voters want us to fight the culture wars,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Vance observed how Democrats and the broader left regularly lie about \u201cracism\u201d to present themselves as defenders of supposedly beleaguered racial and ethnic minorities as part of their&nbsp; pursuit of political power.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat they\u2019re saying is that \u2014&nbsp;<\/span><span>basically \u2014 racism is anything that doesn\u2019t give the Democrats more power,\u201d he remarked. \u201c<\/span><span>The reason they use that accusation is not because they care about minorities, it\u2019s not because they care about racists \u2014 or whatever the topic of the day is \u2014 it\u2019s because they recognize it is a useful strategy to give them more power. If we learn anything over the last couple of days, the best way to respond to that is to mock and make fun of them, ignore them, and not to be cowed by [them]\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Political elites have contempt for those they rule over, Vance noted. Americans, he added, are coming to realize that the bureaucratic and political classes often operate in bad faith.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA lot of parents have sort of assumed that we\u2019re living in a country where the leadership class \u2014 whether it\u2019s in our local schools, our administrators, whether it\u2019s our politicians \u2014 that they fundamentally care about us,\u201d he said. \u201c[Americans assumed that] t<\/span><span>hey fundamentally are out for the best interests of us, and our kids, and what we\u2019re all kind of waking up to is this extreme hostility \u2014 it\u2019s like fundamental dislike \u2013that a lot of leaders have for the citizens of their own country.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mask mandates imposed on children illustrate the government\u2019s contempt for American citizens, Vance held. He said the use of \u201cfear tactics\u201d by government and allied institutions regarding the coronavirus is \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said, \u201cNowhere is that more obvious to me than in the school debate \u2014 in the masking debate \u2014 and why do we continue to mask our children? We know that children are not at-risk for the virus. We know that the masks aren\u2019t slowing the spread in their schools. We know that kids don\u2019t pass on the coronavirus virus as much as adults do. So why do we continue to do this?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cIt\u2019s not because our leaders are misguided.&nbsp;It\u2019s because our leaders don\u2019t like us, and they feel empowered to exercise control over us. \u2026 They still can\u2019t quite let go of the incredible power high that they\u2019ve gotten from terrifying people over COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Vance, author of\u00a0Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis\u00a0and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, said the lesson of Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial election &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969748","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\/969748","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969748\/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=969748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}