Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies

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On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat interviews Vice President JD Vance about the Trump administration’s deportations, the tariff backlash and how Vance’s faith influences his politics.

  • 01:49 - How faith shapes JD Vance’s politics
  • 04:26 - ‘Papal interventions in politics’
  • 14:44 - How will the Trump administration measure success on immigration?
  • 21:22 - ‘The courts are trying to overturn the will of the American people’
  • 23:55 - Are migrants really at war against the US?
  • 28:48 - The parallels between the War on Terror and Trump's deportation policies
  • 40:29 - What does a successful trade policy look like?
  • 48:10 - The "big, beautiful bill"
  • 58:57 - Does the Trump administration expect the AI revolution will take jobs?
  • 54:05 - What worries Vance about AI
  • 58:33 - JD Vance's message to shocked Trump voters

(A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.) 

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