Hillbilly Elegy Author -- Who Is RUNNING FOR SENATE -- Thinks Women Should Stay In 'Violent' Marriages
perezhilton.comIf you don’t know the name JD Vance, we have to assume you’re either treating your brain kindly by not subjecting it to politics lately… or treating your brain kindly by not subjecting it to terrible disingenuous Oscar bait movies.
In short, Vance gained fame as the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis — a story of his youth as a child of poverty in rural Kentucky, where he saw firsthand the forgotten people of America during financial and opioid crises. Netflix even made it into a movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
However, the bestseller has been criticized for its leaps in logic to conservative talking points about self-reliance and the supposed evils of welfare programs, as well as broad stereotypes of poor folks in rural areas.
See, like other conservative figures before him, he may have exaggerated his whole “pulling himself up by his bootstraps” origin story.
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