When I saw it, I thought “that MUST be deceptively edited, or out of context”
It’s not.
CSPAN has the entire video, and I’m linking it here. Go to the 1:03 mark. He’s not being quoted out of context and he’s dead serious.
JD Vance, recently: “We are in a late republican period.” (Reference to Rome’s transition from a republic to a dictatorship) “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”
The MAGA movement is not in any meaningful way “American”, and is the very opposite of the highest American ideals.
Watch the video starting at 1:03.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?537386-1/president-trump-speaks-turning-point-believers-summit