JD Vance apparently admired Barack Obama enough to put it in writing?
Apologies if this has been posted. Please tell me how the Felon’s only the best people didn’t dig this up? I guess it’s another example of the JD flip flop.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7951262-president-obama-came-on-the-scene-right-as-so-many
“President Obama came on the scene right as so many people in my community began to believe that the modern American meritocracy was not built for them. We know we’re not doing well. We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with. Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it—not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right. Many”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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