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On America\u2019s 250th anniversary Saturday, The Atlantic republished a decade-old essay<\/u> that delivered a blistering rebuke of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump \u2013 one that was written by now-Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n

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Atlantic writer Peter Wehner revisited<\/u> the July 4, 2016 column Vance wrote just after the release of his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” At the time, Vance argued that Trump was exploiting the economic and cultural collapse of working-class America, calling Trump\u2019s promises \u201cthe needles in America\u2019s collective vein.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wehner pointed to Trump’s cratering approval ratings, rising consumer prices and a fracturing MAGA base as signs the “comedown Vance predicted” had finally arrived. He cited one recent poll putting Trump’s approval at just 30%, along with cracks among Republican lawmakers and even longtime allies like Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen summers ago [Vance] understood, better than most, the threat Trump posed to America. Vance, who described himself as a \u2018Never Trump guy,\u2019 thought Trump was an \u2018idiot,\u2019\u201d Wehner wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe admitted to a friend at the time that he goes \u2018back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn\u2019t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he\u2019s America\u2019s Hitler.\u2019 But then ambition made its offer, and Vance, who had seen the danger so clearly, discovered he could see his way around it. The first stop was the Senate; the next was the vice presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wehner went on to argue that Vance \u2013 someone he described as “a teller of hard truths” \u2013 had since transformed into “a peddler of lies he is surely clever enough to recognize as such.”<\/p>\n

Quoting Vance’s own memoir line that “nothing compares to the fear that you’re becoming the monster in your closet,” Wehner concluded that the private monster Vance once feared “is a public one” now.<\/p>\n

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