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Lucy Campbell

The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago

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Donald Trump gives remarks as JD Vance looks on during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on 16 March. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/EPA

The Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance essay that dismissed Donald Trump as “cultural heroin” exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore his evolving from a critic of the president to his vice-president.

In an editor’s note, the magazine said it was republishing the essay on the occasion of its 10th anniversary – and the US’s semiquincentennial – “so that our readers can judge for themselves how well his assessment [of Trump] … has stood the test of time”.

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