J.D. Vance addressed a right-wing Statesmanship Award dinner at the Claremont Institute and warned that the left was on the move. He accused New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani of hating the audience, the president, and his voters, offering no proof but delivering partisan rhetoric the crowd embraced. Vance characterized Mamdani as ungrateful to the land and those who settled it for calling the nation "contradictory" and "unfinished." Vance advanced a blood-and-soil vision of America rooted in European ancestry, celebrated his family's generational claim to a homeland, and framed political opposition as an existential threat requiring defense.
Vance has long rejected America as an idea in favor of America as a blood-and-soil nation, built on the bones of our (presumably European) ancestors. America "is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation," he said when he addressed the Republican National Convention in 2024. Vance's America is the eastern Kentucky cemetery where he wants to rest with his wife, and eventually his children,
who would be the seventh generation of his family entombed there. His family "built" America, made things in America, would fight and die for America, and that "is a homeland," in his words. That rhetoric is an implicit threat, too. If the homeland is in trouble from the likes of Mamdani, as Vance now says, we must defend it and finish the project the vice-president's ancestors allegedly began.
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