Appearing on Fox News on Aug. 13, Vice President J.D. Vance told Republicans they are largely responsible for young voters turning towards leftist and socialist candidates, because of the population’s justifiable economic concerns. “I would say to that young person that you as an American citizen deserve to have a good life in this country, and you deserve to have a government that is making it easier for you to start a family, for you to afford to get a good education, for you to have a good job, for you to afford a home,” the vice president said.
“My warning to my fellow Republicans would be: If we don’t get this right, don’t blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism. We’ve got to blame ourselves,” he told Fox News host Will Cain. “You don’t stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people’s lives better.”
