This was a good, solid VP choice. Vance is qualified and smart, two attributes you want in a VP, as Trump’s advanced age (and now the threat of being assassinated) makes his choice more important than typical of the VP selection process. People are wondering what the implications of his choice are. There will not be anything close to the breakup of major tech companies. Despite being anti-woke and his online populist appeal, the guy who built his career and wealth on Silicon Valley connections is sure as hell not going to sever them. Trump has and always will be the main attraction; the last time a VP played an active role was Cheney, and despite Vance’s qualifications and popularity, will not overstep the implicit boundaries of his position that he has been assigned to.
Trump’s main focus is on the economy to both bolster his legacy and to create conditions conducive for his successor, which I am guessing will be Vance. This means having to strike a delicate balance of signaling anti-woke sentiment or nationalistic sentiment, such as against China, but not to the extent that it negatively affects the economy and the stock market too much. This has always been a problem with the right: if large tech companies are now the cornerstone of the U.S. economy, and such companies lean woke, then you’re stuck with a watered-down version of wokeness as defacto ruling ideology. Trump in charge will not change this, as we saw during his first term.