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Hypocrite’s Elegy: J.D. Vance Is an Avatar of GOP Corruption

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The Senate candidate didn’t just flip-flop on supporting Trump. Vance embraced the politics of anger and grievance and victimhood that made him loathe Trump in the first place.

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When I interviewed J.D. Vance about his book Hillbilly Elegy five years ago, he conceded that his politics and his background made him a natural Trump supporter.

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