 He favors government interventionism in terms of subsidies and regulations, very much like President Trump supposedly did back in 2016. Trump didn't actually end up implementing a whole hell of a lot of that. I assume that J.D. Vance, if he were president, would. Here's what he wrote in Hillbillyology, quote, What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly, it's not your fault, you're a loser, it's the government's fault.