JD Vance is the Gorbachev of our time

Mikhail Gorbachev never intended to liquidate the Soviet empire.

Perestroika and glasnost were meant to rescue a bankrupt ideology and a moribund economy after the West’s relentless pressure exposed communism’s hollowness.

Instead, they hastened the empire’s unraveling.

The system collapsed not because Gorbachev hated it, but because his reforms could not save what ideology and […] ...