JD Vance Could Have United America’s 'Conflicting Strands' — but 'Went Scorched Earth' Instead: Analysis

JD Vance bashed for abandoning 'moral compass' to go 'scorched earth' for Trump

A new piece in The Atlantic laid out how Vice President JD Vance made a deliberate decision to "betray his true values" rooted in Appalachia in order to go full MAGA alongside Donald Trump when the political timing was right.Journalist George Packer examined Vance's rise from the working class in a ...

JD Vance could have united America’s 'conflicting strands' — but 'went scorched earth' instead: analysis

When JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" came out in 2016, it got a variety of responses from liberals and progressives. Some on the left accused the book of shaming the poor; others, however, liked the fact that someone who was right-of-center politically took an in-depth look at the social and economic problems that rural whites were facing in Appalachia.Vance, at the time, was a scathing critic of Don…