J.D. Vance Gives the New Right a Chip and a Chair

How Trump's potentially transformative pick may shape the party far beyond 2024.

In the world of professional poker, people sometimes talk about a “a chip and a chair”— a phrase that originates from the 1982 World Series of Poker championship where Jack Straus (pictured in legendary late 1970s/early 1980s poker fashions) came back from having a just single chip left to win the world title.

The idea behind “a chip and a chair” is that, as long as you’ve got a seat at the table and even the smallest amount of money to put up, you’ve got a chance to win.

I thought about this concept quite a lot over the past few days with respect to J.D. Vance’s nomination for Vice President and why it was so important, and potentially transformative, for the future of the American right. If the right is truly to take back America over the coming years, we are going to need both a tremendous amount of hard work and a tremendous amount of lu…