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JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives
With the news that JD Vance was chosen by Donald Trump to be the Vice Presidential candidate, I shuddered in recognition. As an author and an editor, I have been publishing-adjacent for most of my life. Vance’s story—as recounted in his bestselling book …