“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”

Is what he texted to an old friend from college. Obviously, he decided that Trump is a useful, cynical asshole like Nixon and has acted accordingly.

Making Vance a cynical asshole as well, but we all knew that.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/04/19/americas-hitler-old-j-d-vance-message-turns-up-in-heated-senate-primary/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/15/jd-vance-past-trump-criticisms-abortion-shooting/74418450007/

"J.D. Vance, the new GOP nominee for vice president, used his first interview since being named to the ticket to explain why he once called his running mate − Donald Trump − "America's Hitler."

Coinciding with President Joe Biden's highly anticipated NBC interview, Vance told Fox News he was initially wary of Trump in 2016.

"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," Vance wrote in a 2016 message to a friend.

Monday, the Ohio senator said he has changed his mind."