Hillbilly Elegy was once regarded as “the key to understanding the disaffection of the white working class that had swept Trump to his shocking victory.”
Now it is seen as “poverty porn” that “paints him as an opportunist and the place he came from, and claims to represent, as a sinkhole that no self-respecting person would be caught dead in.”
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https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-movie-netflix-trump-vp.html