J.D. Vance Once Compared Trump to Hitler

Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) said in 2016 that Donald Trump was either a “cynical asshole” or “America’s Hitler” in a private message to an old law school classmate, Vice News reports.

Said Vance: “I think most people are not very ideological, and Trump, while I find him loathsome, touches a legitimate nerve… But I’m not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame.”

He added: “We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect.”