General Discussion

...Any number of times now during this campaign, Vance has been caught essentially plagiarizing alt-right rhetoric, delivering it directly to Trump fans in his speeches. This also serves to short-circuit the "mainstreaming" process that normally goes on in the culture (where the most overt bigotry and racism gets removed from, say, the rantings of Roosh V et al.). What Vance is doing is the cultural equivalent of injecting uncut hard drugs into the veins of the body politic.