"It's worth it!"

American Greatness has the interview Sebastian Gorka recently conducted with Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, who tells Gorka,

I tend to think that Trump’s super power in politics was saying things that were very obvious to normal people but that you couldn’t say in elite circles. And so in 2016, you weren’t allowed to say that America was having its clock cleaned by China. But that was just an obvious thing, right? We were losing millions of manufacturing jobs. They were becoming a new global economic power and our elites were just like “This is totally fine” and Donald Trump said, “No, it’s not. We should not be doing this. This is stupid.” Uh, you know, the- the entire thing with identity politics, if you think about it, is it fundamentally boils down to taking people’s common sense and making them not allowed to say it, right? There’s this massive gap between everybody’s common sense or at least most people’s common sense, and what they’re allowed to say on the job, what they’re allowed to say on social media without censorship. And- and again, I think Trump’s super power in politics is taking those insights and just saying, you know, I’m going to say them and people might attack me, but I’m at least going to get it out there and I’m going to make it clear that normal people recognize that I’m speaking for them and listening to them.

what you have to do is cast away the current leaders of the conservative movement, the current Think Tank intellectuals, the current policy public policy people. And unfortunately, to do that, you have to also accept that a lot of people are getting wealthy off the current system. So, you- you have to change the incentives here. You have to make it so that people frankly earn money and get rich for purse pushing the right public policies. And that’s why I ultimately wrote that piece is that I saw that disconnect and I saw why it was happening. That unless you get the incentives right, unless you make people benefit from pushing and an agenda that’s good for Americans and instead of you know, somebody else, that it’s going to continue to happen in the conservative movement is that that’s gonna serve as a slow check on American decline.

Read more here: https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/10/reinvigorating-americas-heartland-j-d-vance-talks-with-sebastian-gorka/