Facts donāt matter to Trump or Vance. Donāt expect anything in that department. They care about getting ahead or looking like they are.
In my reading, Vance didnāt call European countries ābackwoodsā:
āIām not going to go to some backwoods country and tell them how to live their lives, [ā¦] But European countries should theoretically share American values, especially about some very basic things like free speech.ā
My paraphrasing of that would be: āThere are ābackwoodsā countries and I expect nothing of them. But European countries must share our values and need to leave our propaganda platform untouched.ā
There are ābackwoodsā countries and I am not going to be telling them explicitly how to live their lives, they should by default share our values and be doing what we do.
With this reading he is using backwood countries as european countries. With the American Republican party, you can safely assume the most offensive interpretation of their sentences because history shows us that they usually mean it.
Facts donāt matter to Trump or Vance. Donāt expect anything in that department. They care about getting ahead or looking like they are.
In my reading, Vance didnāt call European countries ābackwoodsā:
My paraphrasing of that would be: āThere are ābackwoodsā countries and I expect nothing of them. But European countries must share our values and need to leave our propaganda platform untouched.ā
My reading is:
There are ābackwoodsā countries and I am not going to be telling them explicitly how to live their lives, they should by default share our values and be doing what we do.
With this reading he is using backwood countries as european countries. With the American Republican party, you can safely assume the most offensive interpretation of their sentences because history shows us that they usually mean it.