i think you can safely assume vance has always been like this, his entire career has been a mix of indignation that he’s not more respected than he is and a strikingly deep contempt for the rubes, and his success can be attributed to the rubes thinking he means their neighbor/brother/child, not them
JD Vance doesn’t believe in anything, but he certainly doesn’t believe in this. I often wonder what it does to a person’s soul to cynically adopt bad positions for a living. Do they come to “believe” them bc of positive feedback from the rubes? Are they a bunch of Gollums? Or just evil?
anyone who has spent time around working class whites knows the person who thinks they’re morally better than their family and their friends and their coworkers and their peers and who not-so-secretly thinks those people deserve everything bad that happens to them in life. vance is their champion.
