This isn't being unfair to Vance: he explicitly identifies as a "postliberal," a school of thought that believes it's the government's job to push people toward living morally upright lives, defined in conservative religious terms. In particular, he has cited Patrick Deneen — a Notre Dame professor and chief postliberal theorist — as a major influence. Speaking at a release event for Deneen's book, Regime Change, Vance described himself as an "anti-regime" politician — meaning that he aimed to act on Deneen's call for fundamentally transforming American politics along postliberal lines..."
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