Born into poverty and a broken family, and having made his way up through elite education, Vance has come to see the hypocrisy and arrogance of the establishment from the inside. As an insider, he wants to tear this system apart, by any means, going all in, a system that presents itself as moderate and respectable while rotting from within. He is driven by a strong sense of mission: to rescue America from its liberal democratic tradition, to free his rust belt homeland from the drain the elite class has put on it, and to build a more powerful national order through whatever necessary evils it takes, Caesarist, Leviathan-like, centered on the family and the domestic worker.
To gain the power to change America and the world, he sold his soul (his conscience, his morals, his honesty). Vance is no madman. He is sharp, articulate, rational, and pragmatic, and he has placed his bet on the New Right and post-liberalism. But whether the path he is walking is ethical, whether it can rebuild civilization, whether it can make America great again, remains to be seen. The stress he is applying may induce rhabdomyolysis rather than the micro-tears that build muscle. He is making America more efficient, and also more brutal. Whether this is “historical necessity” may only become clear twenty years from now, when we see whether what he leaves behind is rubble or something that still stands.