Vance Channels Huey Long, Torches Democrats as Sharia Defenders

At a Middletown steel plant, the VP revives Depression-era populism and targets Michigan's El-Sayed for calling Sharia criticism white supremacy.

Dissenter News·Published August 22, 2026·1 min read

Vice President JD Vance stood in a Middletown steel plant Friday and reached back nearly a century to Huey Long's Depression-era populist slogan

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JD Vance unloads on Abdul El-Sayed over Sharia remarks: ‘That’s not my grandpa’s Democratic Party’

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