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@ReaderJohn Yep, I thought Hillbilly Elegy was a thoughtful book, I’ve lived in southern OH, and for a while I imagined he’d be a voice for a neglected constituency. So there was some special pain in watching his complete moral collapse. It makes you ask, was I fooled? Was he nothing but ambition fr…
I feel the exact same way. I’ve not lived in Ohio, nor anywhere else in the US, so I have no personal experience to compare Hillbilly Elegy to, but I really liked it and thought that Vance was an interesting person. When I wrote about the book in 2019, I praised him for being ”the old school type of conservative or republican, the kind that was more prevalent before the party was hijacked by a buffoon and those power-hungry enough to sell out every single principle they have as long as they feel like they can use the buffoon in question for their own personal gain. The kind that I respect.”
Vance certainly made a fool of me for thinking that.
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