Hillbilly Elegy Author -- Who Is RUNNING FOR SENATE -- Thinks Women Should Stay In 'Violent' Marriages
26.07.2022 - 06:33
/ perezhilton.com
If you don’t know the name JD Vance, we have to assume you’re either treating your brain kindly by not subjecting it to politics lately… or treating your brain kindly by not subjecting it to terrible disingenuous Oscar bait movies.
In short, Vance gained fame as the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis — a story of his youth as a child of poverty in rural Kentucky, where he saw firsthand the forgotten people of America during financial and opioid crises. Netflix even made it into a movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
However, the bestseller has been criticized for its leaps in logic to conservative talking points about self-reliance and the supposed evils of welfare programs, as well as broad stereotypes of poor folks in rural areas. See, like other conservative figures before him, he may have exaggerated his whole “pulling himself up by his bootstraps” origin story. Before going to Yale, Vance didn’t really fight his way from the bottom — he wasn’t even from the mountains of East Kentucky, he just spent a few summers there. He actually grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati.
So near as we can tell, he’s basically the Hilaria Baldwin of the Appalachians. Hillbilliaria, if you will.
OK, with that in mind… Donald Trump loves this guy. And with that glowing endorsement he was able to win the Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio.
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During his campaign, he spoke at Pacifica Christian High School in Southern California last September where he gave an answer that’s just now resurfacing, thanks to Vice. Speaking about the sanctity of marriage, he spoke about why people shouldn’t get divorced. And he made