Does J.D. Vance Hate his Family? [View all]

There's something deeply disturbed about J.D. Vance. It's an ugly self-loathing sickness that is both specific to Vance and a generalized Trump world disease found in the damaged freaks and weirdos trying to destroy America.

It's difficult to imagine a more universal human trait than a biological need to defend your family. But something broken inside J.D. Vance drives him to attack, not protect, his own family.

In his short political career, Vance has defined himself with a xenophobic fever. Like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, he sees immigrants as a threat, not the cornerstone of what makes America more than a place on the map with a flag. In his RNC Convention acceptance speech, as he often does, Vance adopted a classic "blood and soil" definition of what it means to be an American. "America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation."

As is typical of Vance, he is trying to mainstream deeply radical ideas by wrapping them in an "aw shucks, I'm just a hillbilly from Appalachia" common-sense wrapper. "When I proposed to my wife, we were in law school, and I said, ‘Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt, and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in Eastern Kentucky. … Now that cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestral home. And like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin."

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Yet if you read Hillbilly Elegy, you'd know he throw his blood relations under the bus.