JD Vance has made some powerful comments about America and its history(Image: (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images))JD Vance has offered an impassioned response amid reports of a potential “brain drain” across America, with the VP insisting that the country holds the talent and skills necessary to see it thrive.
A brain drain is known as a “situation in which many educated or professional people leave a particular place or profession and move to another one that gives them better pay or living conditions”, with many reporting America could be at risk of having one under Donald Trump.
Vance referenced the past, going all the way back to the 50s and 60s, using this period as evidence that the American people are more than capable of competing on the biggest stage – citing putting a man on the moon as proof of this belief.
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Vance refuted any ideas of a brain drain amid reports that “people at Johns Hopkins University are getting nervous”, in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday night.
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He said: “I’ve heard a lot of the criticisms, the fear that we’re going to have a brain drain. If you go back to the 50s and 60s, the American space program, the program that was the first to put a human being on the surface of the moon was built by American citizens. Some German and Jewish scientists who had come over during World War two, but mostly by American citizens.
“This idea that American citizens don’t have the talent to do great things – that you have to import a foreign class of servants to do these things – I reject that.
“I think if we invest in our students and people we can do a lot of good… I think this is an opportunity for Americans to flourish.”
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Later in the interview, Vance then cited a number of stats to back up his claim that top American universities are “not good science”, and that they are engaging in racial discrimination against “Whites and Asians”.
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