interesting read. my takes

• as always, heartwarming to see that the republican party recognizes that much of their platforms are tremendously unpopular (at least with "moderates"): covid denial, cutting social security, opposing student loan forgiveness, opposing abortion, ties with alex jones / etc all specifically called out as problems with Vance
• they're awfully worried about JD's tucker carlson-like Strasserism. He says he supports unions, especially US domestic manufacturing, because they will make the nuclear family stronger or whatever, and opposes globalization. I think this might be compatible with like, Teamsters type right-unionism of the type we've seen recently, and certainly JD thinks a realignment will happen and is pushing to get it. But I'm not really sure why Trump's team in particular would be worried about this - I thought his whole thing was representing domestic and industrial capital, in opposition to international/finance/tech capital from the Dems and traditional Republicans. Maybe the Trump business base is content with its current path
• I find his right-wing class struggle language very scary