(Screenshot/Twitter/Public — User: @ssharmaUS) July 24, 2021 8:00 PM ET Font Size: Author and Republican Ohio senate candidate JD Vance blamed “the childless left” for the decline of the American family during a Friday speech. In his remarks at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) “The Future of American Political Economy” conference, he reframed the right-left cultural war as a class war, where American elites obsessed with credentialism and career-making have invested only in themselves, rather than investing in the country’s future by fostering healthy families and having children. Prior to his speech, the Daily Caller also had the opportunity to ask Vance about his campaign and how he might go about empowering middle-class American families if elected.