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Trump and Vance Are Having a Jacksonian Moment, by Collin Pruett – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Trump and Vance Are Having a Jacksonian Moment, by Collin Pruett

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By Collin Pruett, The American Conservative, July 21, 2024

Collin Pruett’s writing has appeared in The American Conservative, American Reformer, and Newsmax magazine.

The GOP ticket is busting the old consensus to represent a broad, disenfranchised middle.

J.D. Vance’s rise to the vice-presidential nomination is a watershed moment in American politics. For young conservatives like myself, the moment feels like a triumph, the culmination of curiosity and organization. For the country, the moment offers the first uncompromising choice for change in a generation. The moment calls for a reflection on how we arrived here and the choice before us. Will middle America forge a new consensus, achieved with echoes of the Jacksonian age? Alternatively, will the great city-states of the Democratic Party stymie the tide of discontent and preserve the neoliberal status quo?

By the time I cracked open J.D Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy in late 2016, I was already converted to the loose association of alternative ideas popping up in the conservative movement. Those were strange years to be a young conservative. In Texas, successive generations of conservatives had been influenced by a succession of immiscible ideologies, from Bushism to the Ron Paul revolution. …