What Next - J.D. Vance’s Long Game
J.D. Vance became a sought-after cultural translator when he published Hillbilly Elegy. Now, he’s a rhetorical bomb-thrower running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio. But underneath Vance’s transformation is a relatively consistent appreciation for a new strain of conservatism still in the process of defining itself. Could Vance’s candidacy advance this intellectual movement on the political right?
Guest: Simon van Zuylen-Wood, who wrote about J.D. Vance for the Washington Post Magazine.
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