According to reports, "Hillbilly Elegy" author and Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance was in the Hamptons "mingling with GOP titans of industry" this weekend at a fundraiser. But his appearance in the famously swanky seaside communities in Long Island, New York, has some crying hypocrisy, especially in light of a tweet Vance fired off earlier this month where he slammed the state of New York.
"Serious question: I have to go to New York soon and I'm trying to figure out where to stay," Vance tweeted on July 10. "I have heard it's disgusting and violent there. But is it like Walking Dead Season 1 or Season 4?"
According to Vance's critics on Twitter, his fundraising venture in the Hampton's doesn't exactly coincide with his "man of the people against the elites" persona.
@JDVance1 Hillbilly hypocritehttps://twitter.com/samstein/status/1417101143516360713\u00a0\u2026— Marcy Roberts\ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc31Don't be a MASKHOLE (@Marcy Roberts\ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc31Don't be a MASKHOLE) 1626704295
I wonder if JD Vance was railing against elites in the populisty enclave known as The Hamptons...?https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1417136974541070337\u00a0\u2026— Jonathan Copeland (@Jonathan Copeland) 1626707217
JD Vance, man of the people against the elites, hosting a fundraiser in Real America aka Southamptonhttps://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1417114911528849413\u00a0\u2026— Akhil Vohra (@Akhil Vohra) 1626704443
Populist in the streets but Brooks Brothers in the sheets.https://twitter.com/elise_jordan/status/1417099581045751821\u00a0\u2026— Sarah Longwell (@Sarah Longwell) 1626701280
Hillbilly boy visited the Hamptons and nothing burst into flames. \n\n(And reminder: JD Vance is a Midwesterner.)https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1417101157814738947\u00a0\u2026— Main Street Muse (@Main Street Muse) 1626699315
It\u2019s beyond parody, really.— IowaCaptive (@IowaCaptive) 1626699924
My take is different than most. My problem isnt so much the obvious hypocrisy which I expect from politicians. (I don't intend to be overly cynical.)\n\nMy problem is that he is trying to push populist "solutions" which I don't believe are solutions at all. Populism = snake oilhttps://twitter.com/Elise_Jordan/status/1417099581045751821\u00a0\u2026— Joshua Henry (@Joshua Henry) 1626707256
This is your vanguard of the working class.https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1417101157814738947\u00a0\u2026— Eric Michael Garcia (@Eric Michael Garcia) 1626705150
This is how he got the nickname \u201cEveryman\u201d JD Vance, because he understands what it means to be an anti-establishment, anti-coastal elitist.https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1417136974541070337\u00a0\u2026— Kris Wernowsky (@Kris Wernowsky) 1626707575
Did you survive on your way to the Hamptons to rub elbows with elite east coast rich people???pic.twitter.com/Xp3XjJEyf7— Charles Sherrange (@Charles Sherrange) 1626707534
I mean, if JD Vance's hero Donald Trump proved anything, he proved you can be a complete phony and still fool total marks who will buy into your complete BS narratives.https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1417105341704200195\u00a0\u2026— Steve Singiser (@Steve Singiser) 1626706851
For anyone wondering whether this was just crass political rhetoric, Vance seemingly stayed in the Hamptons (which would be more like The Great Gatsby, and not at all like Walking Dead):pic.twitter.com/nueihhj2AF— Trev E. Trev (@Trev E. Trev) 1626704230
