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JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America | Robert Reich

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JD Vance will almost certainly be the Republican presidential candidate in 2028 , regardless of whether Donald Trump wins in November .

Peter Thiel sees in his protege a future leader of a political movement to turn the US away from democracy.

Thiel had been a major funder of Trump ’s 2016 presidential run, he had significant influence with Trump when urging him to pick Vance for vice-president.

Robert Reich : The foundation for the US ’s first anti-democracy president is being laid right now.

He says Vance has been anointed as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.

Reich is a former US secretary of labor and a professor of public policy at the University of California .