{"id":620,"date":"2024-07-25T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:59:25","slug":"democrats-might-want-to-take-j-d-vance-seriously-simon-van-zuylen-wood-intelligencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/democrats-might-want-to-take-j-d-vance-seriously-simon-van-zuylen-wood-intelligencer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDemocrats Might Want to Take J.D. Vance Seriously\u201d &#8211; Simon van Zuylen-Wood (Intelligencer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThere are several explanations for Vance\u2019s drift. In the aftermath of his book\u2019s unexpected success, he grew wary that readers would use his memoir as an excuse to look down on his Rust Belt and Appalachian kin. \u201cIf you\u2019re an elite white professional,\u201d he said, \u201cworking class whites are an easy target: you don\u2019t have to feel guilty about being a racist or a xenophobe.\u201d After the 2016 election, he felt that liberal curiosity about Trump\u2019s voter base had mostly evaporated, as the traditional media emphasized the primacy of non-economic factors (racism, sexism, Russian interference) over material ones, captured in scornful liberal references to MAGA supporters\u2019 \u201ceconomic anxiety.\u201d Vance was beginning to doubt that his coastal readers were as concerned about the opioid crisis or the outsourcing of jobs as they had initially seemed\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/democrats-might-want-to-take-jd-vance-seriously.html\">https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/democrats-might-want-to-take-jd-vance-seriously.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are several explanations for Vance\u2019s drift. In the aftermath of his book\u2019s unexpected success, he grew wary that readers would use his memoir as an excuse to look down on his Rust Belt and Appalachian kin. \u201cIf you\u2019re an elite white professional,\u201d he said, \u201cworking class whites are an easy target: you don\u2019t have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}