How To Win The Hillbilly Apprentice
A closer look Trump's VP JD Vance as a fellow millennial, class traitor, and writer - plus the receipts on MSM's glowing reviews of Hillbilly Elegy and a new nickname/meme for KaMaola at the end
Comrades: James David Vance is The Hillbilly Apprentice of Donald John Trump.
JD is the best hire for Trump’s Vice President and heir apparent. He is a classic American rags to riches tale of succeeding against the odds. In only 39 years, he has climbed and traversed many diverse biomes within America that make him uniquely qualified to lead: impoverished rural Appalachia, the Marines, “elite” Yale Law School, tech investing, and the Senate. He is most well known as the author of Hillbilly Elegy, his inspiring memoir published in June 2016 during the tumult of Trump’s first campaign. 8 years later, he on the precipice of history. The book’s introduction is humble and prophetic:
“I’m thirty one years old, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve accomplished nothing great in my life… I’ve accomplished nothing great in my life, I am not a governor, senator, or former cabinet official… I have a nice job, a happy marriage, a comfortable home, and two lively dogs.”
Coincidentally, JD was born in 1984 - the title of Orwell’s famous book and the year Yuri Bezmenov gave his legendary speech about ideological subversion. For the first time in my life, I see a major national candidate who understands my cohort. A millennial who appreciates promises and perils of technology, as part of the last generation to grow up without ubiquitous smartphones and social media. A class traitor who rose from poverty to attend an “elite” institution and saw the rot first hand. A veteran who knows the toll of the military industrial complex and uniparty warmonger bloodlust. A capital-C Conservative who is not afraid to subvert subversion in our culture. A writer and orator who can weave pathos and logos. A Christian husband and father who extols the virtues of family.
The most important job of a leader is to set up a strong succession plan. Trump is the indefatigable disrupter who has rammed open the gates for operators to drain the swamp and right the ship. At exactly half Trump’s age, JD is the greatest possible successor and assassination insurance. He is the second middle finger to the establishment. Like Trump, the game was rigged against him being anywhere near institutional power. Uniparty policies would have kept JD in poverty at a minimum, or dead from forever wars and CCP/cartel/Sackler opioids at a maximum. Judge a man by his enemies and who he follows on Twitter. JD has all the right ones. Neocon warmongers, woke leftists, and corporate media are all melting down about him which are ringing endorsements. I interviewed two of his notorious anon Twitter follows: Raw Egg and Lomez. Vance Derangement Syndrome is the new Trump Derangement Syndrome.
JD is already head and shoulders above every VP of the new millennium: Warmonger Dick Cheney, Swamp Creature Joe Biden, Neocon Judas Mike Pence, and DEI Commissar Kamala Harris. JD and Kamala are the ultimate contrast between American meritocracy and Marxist DIE. She was born into privilege with two professor parents, slept with a man twice her age to advance her career, and rose up to the apex of the DIE commissar ranks when Biden selected her for VP solely because her race and gender. DIE means that she is oppressed, while Vance is privileged. The entire DIE system is set up to prevent boys like JD from ever getting into Yale, while girls like Kamala receive sinecures and promotions through affirmative action and DIE hiring. For every 10 Kamalas on a Demorallized DIEvy League campus, there is one JD.
We were robbed of an epic debate:
Hillbilly Elegy has sold almost 2 million copies and was adapted into a hit movie. It is one of the few books in the post-Trump era that has received universal acclaim from all parts of the political spectrum. The vast majority of MSM publications that praised the book will be smearing JD with -isms and -phobias during the campaign. Perhaps they wanted to virtue signal with a smug pat on the back for a redneck come good, not realizing that he would rise to heights far above them. If only they spent the past decade trying to understand JD and people like him, instead of condescending and whipping up hysteria around populism. I have highlighted a few of the big names, but this is a treasure trove for
.NYT and NPR once thought JD was intelligible to both parties and shared stories worth hearing:
The New Yorker found it moving and The Atlantic called it beautiful:
Even the far left coast papers of SF, Seattle, and Portland thought it was one of the books of the year:
Christians, Jews, Australians, and Canadians all in agreement:
Daily Beast, HuffPo, and Vox liking a Republican? What’s next? Pigs flying? The apocalypse?
Hidden gem - JD Vance’s great grandmother was born in a town called KECK!
The same tolerant libs that give JD a standing ovation after his TED talk would boo him and ban him from speaking today:
The mainstream also once adored The Donald, who received cheers from Oprah’s crowd in 1988 when he outlined the MAGA platform and teased a presidential run:
All hail Commie Comrade KaMaola!
Kat ladies slay for yas kween KaMEOWla!
White dudes for Kamala are with she/her!
Donald J is Kamala’s daddy! (too bad he’s a Marxist professor)
For Democracy!
I can identify with JD. I grew up in a failing steel town in Ohio, probably one or two rungs above the socioeconomic status that he had. I’m from a stable family, but it was definitely a lower middle class with two parents who didn’t graduate from college. Like him, I attended an Ivy League law school, have held an important (although not elected) position in the federal government, and now make money that is beyond my wildest dreams. And I will achieve a degree of generational wealth for my family.
In doing this, I have not joined any high society clubs, sought the favor of senators, former cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, elite opinion makers etc. I am just damn good at what I do so and have succeeded based on merit (and with help from the Mrs.).
I have run from those emoluments because they make for a caged life—to be part of the elite, you have to do the elite things all the time. Instead, I bought several acres on a hill in rural West Virginia and built my own getaway house—an escape from the madness that surrounds DC (where I live and work).
WV is from where most of my family originally hails; they came to Ohio bc steel mills were nicer workplaces than coal mines. So in some ways, I have returned to my ancestral homeland, just as much as JD yearns to do someday, according to his acceptance speech. I really think he is the future of the GOO, and I hope it proves out in November.
Leftist media and Democrats would have gone crazy no matter who Trump picked. What was music to my ears was Wall Street wailing. Too long has the Republican party been in thrall to corporate interests.