Algemeen·NRC·27 jun

J.D. Vance is heir to a more radical politics than Trumpism

Back in the 1980s conventional wisdom held that America was moving rightward under Ronald Reagan. But that is not what Patrick Buchanan saw when he surveyed the country as Reagan’s presidency was coming to a close. In his autobiography, „Right from the Beginning”, published in 1988, Mr Buchanan, a Republican stalwart who had worked for Reagan and Richard Nixon, lamented that the „once-Christian country” had abandoned the Judeo-Christian values he was raised on as a Catholic.