"It's blanket opportunism": "Rural America" author on "switch between" the "two different JD Vances"
SalonAs demonstrated this week at Chicago's United Center, modern American politics is an exercise in branding. This is the second of a two-part interview: One of the dominant narratives—which does not hold up well to the empirical evidence in the aggregate— is that Trumpism and the MAGA movement are a “revolt” by the “left behind” working class in rural red state and rustbelt red state America against the liberals and the elites for primarily economic and “cultural” reasons. A recent poll by the Rural Democracy Initiative shows that support for “economic populism” transcends a whole host of demographics in rural communities, including racial lines. How does JD Vance fit into the story of white rural rage and white “working class” angst that is being told by Trump and other right-wing fake populists? And yet, I am pretty convinced that Vance’s selection won’t matter one bit for rural communities.
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