JD Vance lovingly pulls the Johnson-Reed Act out of his nostalgia file

By National Photo Company Collection – Library of Congress

Peter Thiel’s teenage blood taster has some shallow yet disturbing thoughts about American history and culture to offer:

JD Vance in 2021, while discussing earlier waves of immigration to the US:

"You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration and that had its problems, its consequences. You had higher crime rates, you had these ethnic enclaves, you had inter-ethnic conflict in… pic.twitter.com/SQNPwaPBLx— Jacqueline Sweet (@JSweetLI) August 15, 2024

Picking Vance is certainly an interesting approach in appealing to voters in the upper midwest and mid-Atlantic regions, where I suspect some people of Italian, Irish and German ancestry may reside.