The election of 2024 allowed no such illusions: by now, Americans know exactly who Donald Trump is. They saw him call for an insurrection against his own government, watched as he was found liable for sexual assault in civil court, convicted in criminal court for false accounting, and they voted for him in bigger numbers than ever before.
This most obviously manifested in Trump’s disastrous tariffs policy, and its accompanying idea that if America was buying more from China, or another country, then it was selling to them, then it was getting a bad deal.
That return to isolationism, and that retreat from international commitments, is extremely popular within the Maga movement. For many of them, getting out of “forever wars” was a big part of why they voted for Donald Trump. Traditional Democrats and Republicans agreed on America’s role in the world – and its need to be everywhere. Trump was something different.
To many of Trump’s supporters, this is exactly the sort of thing they elected Trump to stop. It looks like another Middle Eastern war with no direct influence or impact on the USA, which didn’t involve an attack on Americans or American interests, but will risk American lives – and spend American taxpayers’ money. Not getting involved in conflicts like this was precisely what distinguished Trump’s foreign policy from that of traditional Republicans.
But others within the Maga movement are staying oddly silent, mostly notably among them Vice President JD Vance. Throughout his time as a senator, Vance was one of the most vocal politicians speaking against the US involving itself in overseas military endeavours, even outright opposing funding Ukraine’s resistance against Russian invasion.
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Trump, though, will almost certainly not be the candidate in the 2028 election, unless he manages to thoroughly overturn the US constitution. That means Maga will be searching for a new avatar for their movement, for its nationalism and its isolationism – someone they can trust not to just say what they want to hear and then return to what they see as establishment politics as soon as they’re elected.
But by standing up for a core Maga principle of non-intervention, Vance could have set himself up as the movement’s natural; successor and a shoo-in for the nomination in 2028.
Faced with a chance to stand up for something he seems to sincerely believe, at the cost of a confrontation with his boss, Vance may choose to shut up and stay in line. It is a decision he may come to regret when he makes his White House run.James Ball is the political editor of The New European
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