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Former President Barack Obama suggested in a recent interview that Vice President JD Vance was promoting a “blood and soil” vision of the country, despite being married to the daughter of an immigrant.
Vance was mentioned as Obama discussed the Reconstruction era with author Malcolm Gladwell, arguing that many of the issues from that period continue to shape political debates today.
“We have a politics now that at least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people,” Obama said. “When you have the current vice president making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of ‘We the people,’ that it matters who your parents were and how long they’ve been here, despite him being married to the daughter of an immigrant himself.”