by Ben Whedon
Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance on Wednesday recalled his childhood and the crisis of small-town America growing up, pointing a finger at President Joe Biden and other career politicians in Washington.
Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Elegy for the Peasants The author spoke about the diminishing prospects of realizing the American dream and emphasized that former President Donald Trump would give a voice to American workers, whom he said had been neglected by Washington.
“President Trump represents America’s last best hope of restoring what was lost, may never be found, a country where a working-class boy, born far from the centers of power, can stand on this stage as the next vice president of the United States of America,” he said.
Vance rose to fame with his memoirs, which chronicled the socioeconomic problems of the Appalachian region. The Ohio Republican went on to emphasize the importance of speaking for the average American.
“But my fellow Americans who are here at this stage and watching this moment at home, this is not about me. This is about all of us and who we are fighting for,” he said.
“This is about the auto worker in Michigan who wonders why out-of-touch politicians are destroying his jobs. This is about the factory worker in Wisconsin who makes things with his hands and takes pride in American craftsmanship,” Vance continued. “This is about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio who doesn’t understand why Joe Biden is willing to buy energy from dictators around the world when he could buy it from his own people, right here in this country.”
“I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved God, family, community, and country with all their hearts,” he said. “But it was also a place that was dismissed and forgotten by the American ruling class in Washington, D.C. When I was in the fourth grade, a career politician named Joe Biden supported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico.”
“When I was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a trade deal that destroyed even more good, middle-class manufacturing jobs in America,” he continued. “When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq, and at every turn in small towns like mine in Ohio or neighboring towns in Pennsylvania or Michigan and states across our country, jobs were being shipped overseas and our kids were being sent to war.”
“Now, thanks to these policies that Biden and other out-of-touch politicians in Washington have given us, our country has been flooded with cheap Chinese goods, cheap foreign labor, and in the coming decades, deadly Chinese fentanyl,” he continued. “Joe Biden screwed up, and my community has paid the price.”
He then noted Trump’s achievements and contributions and his desire to aid communities like his own.
“My work has taught me that there is still so much talent and determination in the heart of America. There really is. But for these places to thrive, my friends, we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country,” he said.
“We need a leader who is not in the pocket of big business, but who is accountable to both unions and non-union, a leader who will not sell out to multinational corporations but will defend American companies and American industry, a leader who will reject the new green scam of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and fight to take back our great American factories. We need PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” he said.
“I am extremely grateful to formally accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America,” he said.
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Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Xformerly Twitter.
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