text:  This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. America's Hitler, reprehensible, cultural heroine, noxious, a terrible candidate. That's how Ohio Senator J.D. Vance once described Donald Trump. But on Monday, Trump tapped the 39-year-old to be his running mate, capping an extraordinary rise for Vance, who was just elected to the Senate in 2022.