Vance Just Issued A Warning to Republicans They Need to Hear About Dems’ Rising Tide of Socialism

Let’s be clear: The economic problems of the last 25 years were not produced by too much free market. They were produced by crony capitalism, globalist trade policy that prioritized cheap goods over American workers, Federal Reserve policy that inflated asset prices while crushing savers, and regulatory regimes that protected incumbent industries against competition. Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell didn’t produce those outcomes. The bipartisan Washington consensus did.

The correct Republican answer is not to abandon free market principles. It’s to clearly distinguish between free markets — which produce broad prosperity when they actually function — and the managed capitalism that both parties have practiced for decades, which produced the conditions that gave rise to Mamdani and El-Sayed.

Vance is right that slogans aren’t enough. The answer isn’t abandoning the principle. It’s living up to it — actually and visibly — while making sure voters understand who created the problem Republicans are now trying to fix.