Judge JD Vance By The Racist, Misogynist, Anti-Semitic Company He Keeps
JD Vance, the anti-feminist Ohio senator and vice presidential running mate for trump, would be well advised to consider the advice of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the classic 1615 Spanish novel, “Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha,” commonly known as the “Man of La Mancha.”
“Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are,” says Don Quixote’s windmill chasing partner, Sancho Panza. “If your worship keeps company with those who fast and watch, what wonder is it that you neither eat nor sleep while you are with them?”
Vance has recently endorsed a book by a major promoter of the notorious, Pizzagate conspiracy, which claimed that Democrats ran a huge pedophile ring. Vance also has written the forward for a book about Project 25, an extensive blueprint for a second trump administration, whose authors include various far right, white supremacist, xenophobes.
Vance has endorsed “Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)” by far right conspiracist Jack Posobiec and ghost writer Joshua Lisec with a forward by former trump confidante and right wing provocateur, Stephen K. Bannon. The book is published by War Room Books, publisher of faith based books and films associated with Stephen and Alex Kendrick.
Bannon is serving a prison sentence for contempt of congress and is awaiting trial for money laundering in connection with a scheme to raise money to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The book labels progressives, civil rights activists, Black Lives Matter demonstrators, communists and socialists as “unhumans.” It purports to be a history of progressive social movements but is loaded with questionable facts and opinions that clash with the views of millions of enlightened Americans.
“In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags,” reads Vance’s endorsement of the book, which came out in July. “Today, they march through HR (human resources), college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people. In ‘Unhumans,’ Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.”
The book is an indictment of democracy as it notes “Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans. It is time to stop playing by rules they won’t.”
In one section, they book claims the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol by trump supporters was a “hoax” and a “lawfare trap” to “destroy” trump fand his fans. It describes those who rushed the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 election as “well-meaning patriots.”
Posobiec, 40, a far right political operative, Internet personality and influential purveyor of disinformation, rose to prominence during the 2016 presidential election as an operative for Citizens for Trump, an organization linked with Roger Stone, a former trump adviser and convicted felon who was pardoned by trump in 2020.
Posobiec was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 2012 to 2018 before the Navy revoked his security clearance.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Posobiec has promoted Russian military intelligence operations and was one of the leaders of the “Stop the Steal” campaign, which cast doubt on the integrity of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. He has also collaborated with white nationalists, antigovernment extremists, members of the Proud Boys, and neo-Nazis.
Posobiec has never met a right wing conspiracy that he didn’t take to heart and nurture. Most notoriously was his promotion of the so-called “Pizzagate” conspiracy, a precursor to the QAnon conspiracy. Posobiec pushed the #Pizzagate lie in 2016, suggesting that Democratic politicians frequented a nonexistent pedophile dungeon below a Washington, D.C., pizzeria.
Posobiec has downplayed his role in pushing the fake story that Democrats visited a non-existent child sex dungeon at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C. However, on Nov. 16, 2016, Posobiec, livestreamed a visit to the pizzeria.
He began to extensively promote the conspiracy on Nov. 21, 2016, less than two weeks before Edgar Maddison Welch of North Carolina entered the pizzeria carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and fired it inside the restaurant. There were no injuries as Welch later said he wanted to save the children he believed were being trafficked.
Restaurant workers from Comet Ping Pong suffered for years from trauma related to the harassment they received because of the lies expressed by Posobiec and others.
He also promoted the “Rape Melania” disinformation campaign in 2016, associating liberals with sexual violence. He has repeated lies and distortions associating violent crimes with anti-racist demonstrators.
Posobiec printed his second book through a publishing house edited by white supremacist Theodore Beale, known by the pen name Vox Day. In May 2017, Posobiec and the neo-Nazi Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer amplified the Russian military intelligence-backed “#MacronLeaks” operation, to boost the campaign of far-right, anti-immigrant French politician Marine Le Pen.
Posobiec also collaborated on content for the online publication “Rebel News” at least twice with Jeffrey and Edward Clark, brothers who were active in online Neo-Nazi circles. The Clark brothers were reportedly connected online to Robert Bowers, who was found guilty in 2023 and was sentenced to death in connection with the massacre of 11 people in 2018 at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
In an Oct. 18, 2021, address at Colorado Christian University, Posobiec said, “It’s time for real Christians to stand up and take this country back. … This country is not ours. This country is his. He is king. God is king. Christ is king. And, the minute we get that back, we get our country back.”
Among other statements, in July 2017, Posobiec tweeted a reference to the Jewish Anti Defamation League (ADL) in a selfie taken at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland.
“The @ADL_National would be wise to remember what happened the last time people made lists of undesirables,” Posobiec tweeted.
After the white nationalist group Identity Evropa disrupted a June 26, 2017 address by Black civil rights activist Lutze Segu, Posobiac tweeted, “Why shouldn’t white people also be allowed to speak at a racial seminar?”
Posobiec described the operation of #StoptheSteal as a repeatable formula for upcoming elections. He wrote of the movement in his 2017 book, “Citizens for Trump: The Inside Story of the People’s Movement To Take Back America.”
“With Mr. Trump shining a light early on about the possibility of corruption, vote stealing, and election rigging, thousands of Americans put their time effort, and special skills to work for the movement,” Posobiec wrote.
Posobiec has appeared at events with the neofascist Proud Boys and has claimed to correspond with the antigovernment extremist group the Oath Keepers. Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers both participated in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In recent years, he has been promoted by mainstream trump supporters in the conservative movement, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Trump’s son, Donald trump Jr., associates publicly with Posobiec and frequently reposts Posobiec’s posts.
Posobiec also is a pitchman for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who spent $25 million to push trump’s election lies. Posobiec sells MyPillow merchandise through his Twitter handle. Twitter suspended Lindell from its platform in January 2021.
Vance also wrote the foreword and an endorsement for a book on Project 2025, the far-right roadmap for a potential second trump administration. Project 2025 is a product of the Heritage Foundation, a far right think tank with strong ties to trump. The more than 900 page document has input from at least 140 contributors and proposes extensive changes to the executive branch including eliminating the Departments of Education and Commerce, and changing the classification for more than 50,000 federal employees to allow them to be fired for political reasons and then replaced with MAGA loyalists. Other controversial sections suggest substantial funding cuts or even complete elimination of programs ranging from Head Start to NOAA weather alerts.
The plan would severely limit the mailing of abortion pills and would replace the Department of Homeland Security with a new, more powerful border and immigration enforcement agency to choke immigration . It would also curtail or disband programs that experts say greatly benefit communities of color, including the Food Stamp and Head Start programs.
After a recent groundswell of Democratic opposition to Project 2025, trump has denied any connection with it. Video clips, however, show trump earlier praising Heritage and the agenda. This week, Project 2025 director Paul Dans, stepped down. Dans was previously chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management in the trump administration.
Project 2025 was orchestrated by Kevin Roberts, a former president of Wyoming Catholic College and current director of the Heritage Foundation. Vance wrote the foreword to a book by Roberts about Project 2025. The book, scheduled to be released on Sept.24, was originally titled “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America” and more recently titled “Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America.”
In January 2024, Roberts said that he did not believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. He said the role of the Heritage Foundation was to “institutionalize Trumpism” and that he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential “if there isn’t massive fraud like there was in 2020.” Contrary to trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020, no evidence of such fraud has been found. Roberts also said that liberals “are supporting legislation that abortion can happen until three days after the person’s born.” No such abortion plan has been suggested by “liberals.”
Roberts also recently said that trump, MAGA and the GOP are “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
At least five contributors to Project 2025 have a history of ‘racist’ commentary or ‘White Supremacist activity,’ according to an analysis by USA Today. They include:
Richard Hanania, a right wing academic whose work has been touted by Vance and Elon Musk. Hanania has written for multiple white supremacist and alt-right websites under a pen name, voicing racist and misogynistic views, including support for eugenics and forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, whom he claimed were more likely to be Black.
In the early 2010s, writing under the pen name “Richard Hoste,” Hanania identified himself as a “race realist” who expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed “miscegenation” and “race-mixing.” Eugenics is a theory that the genetic quality of the human race can be improved through certain practices often viewed as scientific racism. In the 1930s eugenics was used as a justification for the racial policies of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler had praised and incorporated eugenic ideas in “Mein Kampf” in 1925 and emulated eugenic legislation for the sterilization of “defectives.”
In a 2021 interview, Vance described Hanania as a “friend” and a “really interesting thinker.”
The white supremacist, Richard Spencer, published several of Hanania’s articles on the website AlternativeRight.com, including one where Hanania wrote “If the races are equal, why do whites always end up near the top and blacks at the bottom, everywhere and always?”
Corey Stewart won the 2018 GOP primary for Virginia’s Senate seat but lost in the general election after revelations of his long association with white supremacists and his strong praise for the Confederacy. Stewart said in 2017 that he was proud to stand next to the Confederate flag and spoke about defending “our heritage.” Stewart staffers and advisers had ties to “outspoken racists” like Jason Kessler, who was a key organizer for the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 11–12, 2017, in which one opponent of the march was run over and killed by a Unite the Rally supporter.
During Stewart’s primary campaign for Senate, he revived the “birther” conspiracy theory by suggesting that former president Barack Obama’s birth certificate and Roy Moore accuser Beverly Nelson’s yearbook were forgeries. Moore ran in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. Moore lost the special election after allegations surfaced that he allegedly sexually assaulted several women, including Nelson, when they were underage.
In June 2018, Stewart called far-right commentator Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes.” Nehlen had previously made anti-Muslim comments, promoted fringe conspiracy theories and pushed content by white nationalists. During the campaign, Stewart argued that the American Civil War was not about slavery. One of Stewart’s top aides has promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
In March 2019, Stewart was named to head Keeping America Great, a pro-trump conservative super PAC. In November 2020, trump appointed Stewart as the principal deputy assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Michael Anton has written with a pen name to decry the “ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty,” which he claimed would make the U.S. electorate become “more left, more Democratic, less Republican and less traditionally American with every cycle.” He also called for an to birthright citizenship in essays that have been “widely criticized as factually incorrect and misleading” and “very racist.”
Anton has derided American diversity in his writing, arguing in a March 2016 essay that “‘Diversity’ is not ‘our strength’; it’s a source of weakness, tension and disunion.” In the same essay, he defended trump’s slogan “America First” and argued that the America First Committee which included prominent anti-Semites and opposed the United States entering World War II, had been “unfairly maligned.”
Anto also said that Islam “is a militant faith”, and that “only an insane society” would take in Muslim immigrants after the 9/11 attacks. He decried the “ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners,” called for “no more importing poverty, crime, and alien cultures,” called the idea of Islamophobia and the Black Lives Matter movement “inanities” and argued that the American left was waging “wars on ‘cis-genderism’.”
In Anton’s 2019 book “After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose,” he argued that trump constituted “the first serious national-political defense of the Constitution in a generation.” Trump praised the book.
In September 2020, Anton wrote an essay “The Coming Coup?” in The American Mind.” In the essay, Anton suggested that Democrats, aided by billionaire Jewish philanthropist George Soros, were planning a coup d’etat to take over the U.S. through a revolution by people of color.
Stephen Moore withdrew his name from consideration for a Federal Reserve Board appointment during the trump administration “amid scrutiny for his misogynistic and racist jokes and commentary.”
Moore co-founded and served as president of the political action committee, Club for Growth, from 1999 to 2004. The Club for Growth’s largest funders are billionaires Jeff Yass and Richard Uihlein. In 2003 through 2004, the Club for Growth was the largest single funder for Republican House and Senate candidates, outside of the Republican Party itself.
The group has opposed government action to curb greenhouse gas emissions and called on trump to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Club for Growth PAC was one of the biggest backers of Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, having spent around $20 million in 2018 and 2020.
Moore served as one of the top economic advisers to trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Moore was married to Allison Moore until 2011 and in 2012, a Virginia court held Moore in contempt of court for failing to pay his ex-wife $300,000 in spousal support, child support, and other obligations in his divorce settlement. In January 2018, the IRS obtained a tax lien against Moore for $75,328 in unpaid federal taxes, interest, and penalties, alleging Moore had filed a “fraudulent” tax return in 2014.
Richwine’s 2009 PhD thesis was titled, “ IQ and Immigration Policy.” Among its racist statements, Richwine wrote, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”
Richwine resigned from his position at the Heritage Foundation in 2013 amid controversy over his research.
The thesis was uncovered in 2013 amid outrage over other tomes by Richwine claiming that Hispanic immigrants were parasites and had inferior intelligence. After leaving the Heritage Foundation, Trump appointed Richwine to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Anton, Moore and Richwine have supported the racist “Great Replacement” theory, which contends that Democrats are conspiring to change the demographics of the United States by turning encouraging, illegal immigration.
“The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle. As does, of course, the U.S. population,” Anton wrote in a 2016 essay.