J.D. Vance Joins Ticket With Man He Once Called ‘America’s Hitler’

Eight years ago, J.D. Vance privately confessed his true feelings about Donald Trump. “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),” he wrote on Facebook, “or that he’s America’s Hitler.”

Vance has claimed he was wrong about Trump, and he has no doubt altered his beliefs, as have many other observers. But what changed...