The Republican Party continues its Trumpist mutation ... with or without Donald Trump

"The thing we need most is courage!"

, says JD Vance.

, he adds, calling the room full of young passionate conservatives who listen to him

.

The tall young man of 37, with a light beard collar and tennis on his feet, who utters these words, with genuine emotion, at a dinner held last Friday at the Hilton in Alexandria by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, is a candidate for a senator's seat in Ohio, in the heart of the Midwest.

Far from being unknown, JD Vance gained national fame in 2016, for his book

, a vibrant and compelling testimony to the fate of America, forgotten by the working classes of Middletown, Ohio, published in the midst of the rise of Trumpism.

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He recounted the tribulations of his family, who came from the Appalachians, raised to the rank of

thanks to the great saga of the steel industry in the Midwest, then struck

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