前印第安纳州州长米奇·丹尼尔斯表示，他认为副总统JD·万斯及其他共和党人背离该党传统上对自由市场经济的拥抱是错误的——而他们的转变可能为一种“亲自由”运动创造机遇。
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said he thinks Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans are wrong to move away from the party’s traditional embrace of free-market economics — and that their shift could create an opening for a “pro-freedom” movement.
“我认为他们错了，”丹尼尔斯在接受采访时被问及万斯对经济学家米尔顿·弗里德曼的批评时如此说道，弗里德曼一直是自由市场资本主义的倡导者。
“I think they are in error,” Daniels said in an interview when asked about Vance’s criticism of economist Milton Friedman, who championed free-market capitalism.
“我认为万斯所说的是，自由市场中有些方面可能会破坏文化和传统。我的意思是，这就是自由市场所做的事情。它具有动态性，”他对《政治》杂志说。“在我看来，这是保存美国梦的唯一机制，也是我们文化中最重要的元素。”副总统的党内批评者认为，万斯在捍卫特朗普政府的经济政策——尤其是其广泛的关税——时，已经背离自由市场经济，转而主张政府在塑造经济中发挥更大作用。
“I think what Vance is saying is that there are aspects to the free market which can be disruptive of culture and tradition. I mean, that's what the free market does. It's dynamic,” he told POLITICO. “It's the only mechanism, in my view, for preserving the American dream, and that's the most important element of our culture.”The vice president’s intra-party critics have argued that Vance has been moving away from free-market economics and toward a larger role for the government in shaping the economy in his defense of the Trump administration’s economic policies, especially its wide-ranging tariffs.
“总统所做的，是在改变华盛顿特区长达40年的失败的两党共识，这一共识已经出卖了美国工人，摧毁了美国的根本经济实力，”万斯去年在福克斯新闻的采访中表示。
“What the president is doing is changing 40 years of a failed bipartisan consensus in Washington, D.C., that has sold out American workers and destroyed the underlying economic strength of the United States of America,” Vance said in a Fox News interview last year.
一些人认为，万斯正在测试一种更具民粹主义和保护主义的信息，因为他正在为2028年共和党总统提名做准备。
The move is seen by some as Vance testing a more populist and protectionist message as he eyes the Republican presidential nomination in 2028.
但两人曾在某个时间点上政治立场较为接近。在万斯的畅销书《乡下人的悲歌》中，万斯将丹尼尔斯描述为他的“政治偶像”。丹尼尔斯表示，万斯曾在2018年寻求他的建议，询问是否应参选，而他劝阻了万斯，因为那一年对共和党人来说可能是个糟糕的一年。副总统办公室未能立即回应就丹尼尔斯言论发表评论的请求。
But the two men were at one point closer politically. In Vance's bestseller "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance described Daniels as his “political hero.”Daniels has said that Vance sought his counsel on running for office in 2018 and Daniels advised against it because it was likely to be a bad year for Republicans. The vice president’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Daniels’ remarks.
丹尼尔斯最近发布了他的新书《不耐烦是一种美德》。在这本书中，这位印第安纳州政治资深人士 — — 他还曾在乔治·W·布什总统手下领导管理与预算办公室 — — 详细阐述了他倡导自由市场的职业生涯。
Daniels recently released his new book, “Impatience Is a Virtue.”In it, the veteran of Indiana politics — who also led the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush — detailed his career championing the free market.
丹尼尔斯对《政治》杂志表示，特朗普总统既是选民不满的“症状”，也是“推动力”，指出他们“有被宠坏、被轻视、被看不起、被忽视、被不尊重的感觉”。而特朗普的政治成功源于他团结和代表这些不满选民的能力。
Daniels told POLITICO that President Donald Trump was both a “symptom” and “a propellant” of voters’ discontent, pointing to their “feeling of being patronized, condescended, looked down on, ignored, disrespected.”And Trump’s political success came from his ability to unite and represent these discontented voters.
然而，丹尼尔斯认为，特朗普领导下的共和党演变为“亲自由党”提供了空间，该党主张经济自由和个人自主权。
Still, Daniels argued the evolution of the Republican Party under Trump has created room for a “pro-freedom party” that champions economic freedom and individual autonomy.
“无论这是否是这个共和党的下一个版本，或者你找到其他载体，我不知道，”他说。“但我认为这种需求存在，正如我所说，我认为肯定有市场等待有人来表达这种观点。”这位前州长目前回到普渡大学担任临时校长，他在领导该校十年后于2022年卸任。他回避了关于自己党派归属的问题，以及他是否认为万斯可能成为“亲自由”候选人的问题。“一切都待定；我不知道，”他说，指的是万斯。
“Whether that is the next iteration of this Republican Party or you find some other vehicle, I don't know,” he said. “But I think that there's a need, and as I say, there's certainly, I think, a market for that viewpoint waiting to be expressed by somebody.”The former governor, now back at Purdue University as the interim president after leading the school for a decade until 2022, sidestepped a question about his party identification and another one on whether he sees Vance emerging as the “pro-freedom” candidate. “It’s all TBD; I don’t know,” he said of Vance.
丹尼尔斯还为他对另一位2028年潜在候选人、民主党人皮特·布蒂吉格的看法进行了辩护，布蒂吉格在丹尼尔斯任职末期曾是印第安纳州南本德市的市长。
Daniels also defended his view on another 2028 hopeful, Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, during the tail end of Daniels' governorship.
在他的书中，丹尼尔斯说布蒂吉格很聪明，但让民主党活动人士兴奋的他的主要资产是他的性取向。
In his book, Daniels said Buttigieg is smart, but his principal asset that excites Democratic activists is his sexual identity.
布蒂吉格成为首位被确认为内阁秘书的公开同性恋者，当时他被任命领导时任总统乔·拜登的交通部。一位发言人未能立即回应置评请求。
Buttigieg became the first openly gay person confirmed to be a Cabinet secretary when he was tapped to lead then-President Joe Biden’s Transportation Department. A spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
他说道：“这使他以一种对民主党核心选民大部分人具有吸引力的方式脱颖而出。”他补充道：“如果没有这一点，他就不太可能成为全国性人物。”
“This differentiates him in a way that would be appealing to large portions of the core Democratic electorate,” he said. “Absent that, he would be a less likely national figure.”