With JD Vance, an ex-investor could move into the White House – and the right-libertarian ideas of some men who have waited a long time.
When James David Vance introduced himself to the nation in mid-July, he was a true advocate for the little guy. Speaking to delegates at the Republican Party Convention in Milwaukee, Donald Trump’s candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States emphasized his origins in a small town in the Midwest, and he talked about growing up in an environment marked by drug abuse and a lack of prospects, which he had memorialized with his autobiographical novel “Hillbilly Elegy.”