All posts tagged "Hillbilly Elegy"

In an article for The New Republic, writer Greg Sargent bashed Vice President JD Vance for a flip-flop from supporter of the working poor to a staunch Trumpist potentially willing to sacrifice Medicaid to move President Donald Trump's spending bill through Congress.

Vance famously wrote about the struggles he faced growing up poor in a de-industrialized Ohio town in his bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Once seen as a champion of the working class, Vance supported the view that any cuts to Medicaid — long considered a lifeline for low-income Americans — would "undermine the idea that Trump is remaking the GOP as a 'working-class party.'" ...

A new piece in The Atlantic laid out how Vice President JD Vance made a deliberate decision to "betray his true values" rooted in Appalachia in order to go full MAGA alongside Donald Trump when the political timing was right.

Journalist George Packer examined Vance's rise from the working class in a de-industrialized Ohio town to the hallowed halls of Yale Law School, writing that Vance was "tasked with explaining the world he came from to the world he recently joined."

Packer argued that Vance's unique understanding of both worlds plus his "gifts of intellect and rhetoric" could have been used to bring "the country’s conflicting strands together."...

Some fellow veterans criticized Vice President JD Vance's visit to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA, this week, particularly when Vance made his way to the mess hall to have lunch.

The Vice President sported a green military jacket and a bright red hat with the words, "Once a Marine, Always a Marine" emblazoned on it.

On X, formerly Twitter, journalist and former Marine @RonFilipkowski wrote, "Marines learn on Day 1 to never wear their cover inside and damn sure never to eat with it on. Maybe Corporal Correspondent went to a different boot camp than I did."...

MILWAUKEE — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named his vice presidential running mate today.

It's Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.

Or is it Sen. JD Vance of Ohio?...

Freshman U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has sold up to $100,000 in stock he owned in Walmart — a full two years after he bashed the company for using “slave labor” and robbing middle-class Americans of jobs.

Vance made a “full" sale of Walmart on Oct. 3, according to a document filed Monday with the U.S. Senate.

Vance, a venture capitalist and author of the bestselling book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” has owned between $50,001 and $100,000 in Walmart stock since at least November 2021, which is when he filed his first candidate report with the U.S. Senate, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal financial disclosures....