If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with.
James David Vance
The Public Record
We don't have to agree with everything or anything that people say, but when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them.
The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within.
To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an…
A democracy could not survive by dismissing voters’ concerns as invalid or unworthy of even being considered.
If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor for that matter is there anything you can do for the American people.
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
The U.S. sending troops to Ukraine is 'on the table' if Russia does not negotiate a peace agreement in good faith.





