JD Vance got a former professor to delete a blog post Vance wrote in 2012 attacking GOP over anti-immigrant rhetoric
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/jd-vance-delete-2012-blog-post-attacking-gop-anti-immigrant-rhetoric/index.html
CNN
A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Partys stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being openly hostile to non-whites and for alienating Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.
Four years later, as Vance considered a career in GOP politics, he asked a former college professor to delete the article. That professor, Brad Nelson, taught Vance at Ohio State University while Vance was an undergraduate student. After Vance graduated, Nelson asked him to contribute to a blog he ran for the non-partisan Center for World Conflict and Peace.
Nelson told CNN that during the 2016 Republican primary he agreed to delete the article at Vances request, so that Vance might have an easier time getting a job in Republican politics. However, the article, titled A Blueprint for the GOP, remains viewable on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine.
A significant part of Republican immigration policy centers on the possibility of deporting 12 million people (or self-deporting them), Vance wrote. Think about it: we conservatives (rightly) mistrust the government to efficiently administer business loans and regulate our food supply, yet we allegedly believe that it can deport millions of unregistered aliens. The notion fails to pass the laugh test. The same can be said for too much of the partys platform.
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