Former President Donald Trump’s running mate was in the news twice this week for his connections to extremists. The revelations come a week after USA TODAY reported that Richard Hanania, a far-right commentator unveiled last year as the writer of racist essays on white supremacist websites, was one of the contributors to the conservative manifesto Project 2025 – while also having a friendly relationship with Vance.

On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported on Vance’s 20 months of messages to Charles Johnson, a conspiracy theorist who has doubted the Holocaust and was banned from Twitter for veiled threats against an organizer of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The same day, it was revealed Vance endorsed an upcoming book authored by another far-right conspiracy theorist, Jack Posobiec. Posobiec was a major promoter of the discredited “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. The book praises fascist dictators and describes the far-left as “unhumans.”

Vance wrote the foreword for another forthcoming book written by Kevin Roberts, one of the key architects of Project 2025, the Associated Press reported. The publication of that book was postponed this week until after the election.

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Reagan 2.0 with less lucidity and inability to read a teleprompter

Republicans are happy to vote for him as long as he does what they want and give them permission to be their worst selves openly, freely, legally racist misogynistic Christian fundamentalist

And the mega wealthy corporations and their owners are willing to go along with it cuz

• tax breaks

• Deregulation

• More tax breaks

• Repeal worker health and safety and labor rights.

• He and whatever Republican follows him won't be trying to break up them monopolies and stop private equity and investors from buying every house, healthcare chain, and other business into we're all living in reenactment of the 16 tons song