A Few More Nationalist Thoughts on JD Vance—We Have A Great Vice President!

In an earlier piece from July of 2024, A Few (Nationalist) Thoughts on JD Vance, White Papers covered the newly nominated Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance. In the piece we outlined his nationalist policy positions on issues like energy sovereignty, trucking, and immigration.

We also critiqued the then-senator’s positions on Iran (he wanted to give Israel more support) and what at the time appeared to be his denial of the reality of the Great Replacement. A lot has happened since. With the Trump-Vance administration in place for nearly a year now, Mr. Vance has proven to be a far better Vice President than we hoped for.

Most recently, while taking questions at a Turning Point USA event, the Vice President took fantastic nationalist positions on the issue of immigration. Vance moved beyond the usual boilerplate Republican opinion that illegal immigration is bad—he attacked legal immigration as well, saying that we take far too many legal immigrants. He described how legal immigrants undermine wages for white collar Americans in the same way that illegal immigrants undermine wages of blue-collar countrymen.

Furthermore, Vance offered faint praise for the 1924 Immigration Act which effectively closed America’s borders and established the system of national origins quotas that ensured 90% or more of our immigrants came from Europe until the passage of the 1965 Immigration act. The Vice President also said that America needs to curtail legal immigration in order to maintain a culturally cohesive society and asserted that there is nothing wrong with asserting our interests over those of other states. A great performance. [Transcript.]

Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at a Turning Point USA Tour Event

In other statements since taking office, the Vice President (who previously seemed to embrace diversity) has systematically repudiated the idea that a diverse society makes the United States stronger. Vance has been a critical part of the administration’s efforts to dismantle DEI and has stated on numerous occasions that diversity is a disaster for a coherent society. Vance has even gone so far as to proclaim to a large TPUSA crowd that he wishes to see his wife, the child of Hindu immigrants, convert to his Catholic faith. The mainstream media relentlessly attacked Vance for this statement in the days after he made it, but his desire is clearly natural and genuine. As in a family, a culturally coherent society will desire its immigrants to assimilate to the prevailing faith as well as adopt its language and customs.

We also criticized Vance for comments he made in early 2024 suggesting that the U.S. should help end the war in Gaza to refocus on the threat of Iran. We were suspicious of this neoconservative-sounding language; but as it turns out, Vance has been voice for restraint in the Trump administration. In June, 2025, while the Trump administration was launching airstrikes against Iran, Vance asserted that American boots would not see the sands of Iran and that the administration was not going to attempt and enact regime change in Iran despite the calls from some parts of the Republican party. These were once again the correct nationalist positions to take. Americans have no interest in another “forever war,” and the Vice President appears to understand that.

Finally, Vance has expanded on the pro-worker positions that once-senator Vance consistently espoused. During the aforementioned TPUSA event, Mr. Vance criticized large tech companies for collecting and hoarding the data of Americans; and he told citizens that they needed to pressure lawmakers to establish laws to protect our data. Vance has also played a role in the administration’s crackdown on illegal and legal truck drivers endangering American roads.

Trump Administration Cracking Down on States Issuing Commercial Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

He continues to champion unions who support the President, and he noted correctly that union support of Trump is higher than any other Republican in decades.

JD Vance has turned out to be much more aligned with identity-based nationalism than we initially thought. He has explicitly defended the idea that America is a Nation, not an economic zone, and one based on ancestry at that. If Vance continues this political evolution into his likely future presidency, advocates of Remigration may soon have a sympathetic ear in the White House.