J.D. Vance and Project 2025 will take women back to the 1950s: columnist
Many of J.D. Vance's political and religious beliefs are being exposed as the spotlight turns to shine on him for the role of vice presidential running mate.
Donald Trump picked Vance, a friend of his son Don. Jr., ahead of the Republican National Convention.
Wednesday, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace listed off some of the ideas Vance holds, he is against in vitro fertilization and he wants a nationwide ban on reproductive care, even in the case of rape and incest. Vance also fought to remove any protections for women leaving her stage seeking reproductive care.
Laura Bassett, writing for New York Magazine, recalled the sexism of former Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to dine alone with women.
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“If your worldview tells you that it’s bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs,” Bassett quoted a Vance tweet from 2022, “you’ve been had.”
Such an idea is just as sexist, she explained. Vance's wife, Usha, is a successful conservative attorney who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
"As an Ivy League–educated man in his 30s, and someone who understands social media in a way the old, wooden running mate that came before him never could, Vance can put an ominous new polish on outdated views of marriage roles and women in the workplace," wrote Bassett.
This week, Vance deleted his position about abortion from his U.S. Senate campaign website. Screen captures still reveal his far-right beliefs.
In 2022, Vance condemned rape survivors who sought abortions. He claimed that the women don't want to carry the rape baby due to an "inconvenience." In 2021, Vance went so far as to claim that women should stay in violent marriages for the sake of the children.
When speaking to Fox's Sean Hannity, however, Vance tried to change his story, saying that it's "shameful" people are saying that he believed that when he came from an abusive childhood.
"It's not what I said," Vance claimed.
His problem is that the remarks were captured on video as he spoke to the Pacifica Christian High School in Southern California in Sept. 2021. Vice published it.
Vance's values mesh well with the views and policies outlined in the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025," a 900-plus page plan for Trump's second term, according to analysts.
On Tuesday, the 19th wrote that on page 451, the project's authors declare that the only valid family is a working father married to a stay-at-home mother and children.
Bassett noted that Vance can try an “soften” his previous policies, "but what he really thinks of working women and moms is clear. And it doesn’t feel like a coincidence that this man’s meteoric rise in politics has paralleled the cultural resurgence of the 'tradwife,' a particular brand of white woman who deceptively boasts online about how baking bread for her man and carrying his babies through fields of wildflowers has brought her more fulfillment than the feminist movement ever could."
The Daily Beast predicted that Vance's wife is likely headed to a "tradwife" makeover.