text:  They do not want Nikki Haley. They do not want Mitt Romney. That version of the party, and sometimes people ask me this, they say, well, how do we get back to that? And I think it's important to understand that we are not going back to that. The pick of J.D. Vance is a real doubling down on the future of the Republican Party as a magified populist party that bears little to no resemblance to the Republican Party of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.