James David Vance
The Public Record
The best advice she gave me when it came to politics is ‘Don’t let them filter you.’
That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years.
Now, the good news is that I happen to think your democracies are substantially less brittle than many people apparently fear.
If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country then it wasn't very strong to begin with.
The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within — the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values…
I think the president's hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall.
Well what the president says is we need a sustained commitment from the government of Mexico to take the job of border security seriously.





