Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s ties to tech billionaires
5 months, 1 week ago

Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s ties to tech billionaires

NPR  

Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s Appalachian roots are well-known, thanks to his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” another aspect of Vance’s background is now gaining attention: His connection to prominent Silicon Valley billionaires. “The water’s warm.” Tech billionaires are already giving millions and expected to turbocharge Trump/Vance campaign Shortly after Vance was announced as Trump’s VP pick, a new tech-aligned super political action committee was unveiled called America PAC. Tech billionaires endorsing Trump and Vance as way to rail against perceived ‘wokeism’ While many of the tech moguls supporting Trump and Vance tout policy positions that favor Silicon Valley, another element is that the tech elite are now embracing the GOP ticket as being on the side of a rebellion against liberals. And Vance is a really great example of that,” said Max Chafkin, who wrote “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” which discusses Vance.

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LA Times  

Vance’s ascendance to vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, with ardent backing by tech investor and megadonor Peter Thiel, may seem improbable given the tech sector’s longstanding role in Democratic Party fundraising. Yet Thiel’s support of Vance reflects a larger backlash against the power of legacy tech firms in the United States. As some pro-tech Democrats chafe against the …

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Huff Post  

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The economic mind of JD Vance
5 months ago

The economic mind of JD Vance

NPR  

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New Indian Express  

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Slate  

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LA Times  

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Wired  

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Slate  

What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. As Vance relates in his afterword, critics of Hillbilly Elegy from the left accused the book of being “a victim-blaming piece of anti-government libertarianism,” while those from the right swore that it prescribed “a massive expansion of government welfare programs.” At the time, before Vance launched his political career, his policy positions …

Column: I know what a true hillbilly is, and it’s not J.D. Vance
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Column: I know what a true hillbilly is, and it’s not J.D. Vance

LA Times  

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Raw Story  

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Raw Story  

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The Independent  

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J.D. Vance has a Big Pharma problem
2 years, 4 months ago

J.D. Vance has a Big Pharma problem

Raw Story  

Vance, the billionaire-backed U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio, has routinely positioned himself as an anti-opioid China-hawk, promising to rein in Big Pharma and bring jobs back to the U.S. Vance then hired an American Enterprise Institute resident who cited Purdue-funded studies to downplay the role overprescribing painkillers plays in the opioid crisis as the addiction specialist to Ohio's Appalachian region …

J.D. Vance’s transformation from Trump translator to MAGA combatant
2 years, 4 months ago

J.D. Vance’s transformation from Trump translator to MAGA combatant

Raw Story  

Since publishing his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Republican U.S. Senate nominee J.D. Even at explicitly political events, like 2019’s National Conservatism conference, Vance’s discussion of “Conservatism beyond Libertarianism” is concerned more with the prevalence of opioids and how online bullying and porn isolate young people. “We have to blame ourselves for not doing something to stop it.” As late as January …

'Hillbilly Elegy' author JD Vance signals US Senate campaign
3 years, 5 months ago

'Hillbilly Elegy' author JD Vance signals US Senate campaign

The Independent  

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