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J.D. Vance Joins the Jackals
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 17, 2021 01:07pm |
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| Category | Profile |
| Author | Mona Charen |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 17, 2021 10:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Whatever the future of the Republican party will be, the shape-shifting J.D. Vance sheds light on the dynamics of how we got here and where the Republican party is headed. This week, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel announced that he is donating $10 million to a super PAC supporting Vance’s potential run for the Senate seat from Ohio. Vance hasn’t yet declared his candidacy, but Thiel has been boosting him for a while and it’s a safe assumption that he isn’t prone to throwing away his money.
Vance today is a fixture of the Trumpist right, but that isn’t the way he debuted. Not at all.
Rarely does a nonfiction book make the kind of splash Hillbilly Elegy did in 2016. I was part of the cheering section. At a moment when a thousand voices on the right were proclaiming that a failure to address the problems of the white working class was the root of Trump’s rise, and conservative pundits were lining up to agree that the government had failed these people, Vance emerged as an authentic voice of the working class—a self-styled “hillbilly” no less—to declare that the problems of many working-class people were largely self-inflicted. |
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