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163 | Eliana Johnson and Chris Stirewalt: The Real Lessons from the 2016 and 2020 Elections

The Realignment

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Hillbiliology by J D Vance

i think the question is, like, what did the what political interpretations of hilbileology were right and which ones were wrong? Because the book itself is like a memoir that a just is what it is. And i think one of them was somehow that like, trump understands and captured, like, the anger of,. you know, the working class are like, these are trump people. I'm not sure that that's, that's totally right. The elites in both parties whose job it is to understand the cultural transformation of the country completely failed. That's for some reasons that i think the book does capture.

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