JD Vance represents everything wrong with the Republican party. He should do everyone a favor and retire from politics altogether. He has no principles, only a reading of the polls. In January, as Trump weighed war with Iran, Vance personally asked Rasmussen to add questions on how many American combat deaths the public would tolerate. A regime that has made war on Americans since 1979 is a matter of self-defense. Vance treated it as a matter of public opinion. He defended the war this summer, and now that Republicans have lost seven Senate seats, including his old seat in Ohio, he blames the war and says the party must change its relationship with Israel. The tariffs get none of the blame, because he champions them. He rejects the idea the country was founded on. He told the Claremont Institute that defining America by the Declaration of Independence is over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time, and that men whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have more claim to America than those who say they don't belong. Rights belong to every man by his nature, not by his bloodline. He praised Lina Khan's war on successful companies, and his new memoir has a chapter attacking free market economics. The Republican party does not need an heir. It needs men who will defend individual rights and capitalism on moral grounds, whether the polls agree or not. Ten years of Vance's record show he is not one of them.