‘Don’t Allow This Broken Culture’ To Dictate Who You Are

February 20, 2025

Vice President JD Vance delivered a strong message to young people — particularly young men — during his remarks on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Vance, speaking with Mercedes Schlapp, offered a message from President Donald Trump’s administration to young people in general before pivoting to directly address young men.

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“My message to young people generally is we’re trying to make your life better, and that is the simple thrust of President Trump’s policy,” Vance began. “We want you to be able to buy a home, we want you to be able to work a good job, we want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.”

Vance went on to note that those younger than 30 would be the ones impacted the longest by policies that were implemented in the coming years, whether those policies be good or bad: “I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, ‘Do you want safe communities?’ ‘Do you want a prosperous life?’ ‘Do you want to be able to work a good job, or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else?’ We’re fighting for you every single day.”

Pointing ahead to the 2026 midterms, Vance noted that unless Republicans keep winning, the ability to implement Trump’s agenda could be very short-lived.

He then turned to the young men in the audience, offering another message to them specifically: “You ask me — my message to young men is — I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive.”

“The cultural message, and I think the president’s and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message — I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same,” Vance continued. “We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”