Anyone read hillbilly elegy? Wife says it’s a pretty good look at what went wrong with the US post reganonmics. The opioid crisis in rural America. She was surprised he became a republican as he’s definitely had his struggles. So an interesting dynamic to throw into the mix, maybe he is just an opportunist, but not the usual Christian right VP chosenI was meaning his new V.P running mate compared Trump to Hitler and called him an "idiot" & "never trump guy" in public statements (amongst other things) before Trump became president.
It's an interesting story as he is now a very staunch loyalist... I guess political opportunism his a hell of a drug.
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From Skeptic to Superfan: J.D. Vance’s Turnabout on Trump
He once called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and said he feared he could be “America’s Hitler.” But over an eight-year transformation, the Ohio senator became one of his most ardent supporters.www.nytimes.com