On The Sad, Foreboding Tale Of J.D. Vance

The Republican Party is in a very, very dark place

I liked Hillbilly Elegy for many of the same reasons I liked a book it is often compared to, Strangers in Their Own Land. Of course J. D. Vance’s book is different from Arlie Hochschild’s, in that his is a memoir and hers is an ethnography, but both books are aimed at helping relatively privileged liberals understand relatively less privileged conservat…