During the 20 sixteenth election, when we were all talking about deaths of despair and the opioite epidemic. He presented himself as a witness to the ways in which rural america was being pressured. As he began to spot a political career for himself, he fell into some of the patterns that have consumed much of the rest of the republican party. You noticed that j d vance seems to use the corruption now in a way that, according to you, corruption could be applied to almost any institution at all.
Liberals turned to J.D. Vance’s book to better understand Donald Trump’s victory. Now the “Hillbilly Elegy” author is turning to Trump to try and win the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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