Balloon Juice | Late Night Open Thread: J.D. 'Hillbilly Elegy' Vance Thinks the Peasants Are Revolting
This is a bad idea (**waves in the general direction of S. Huntington**) but it’s also a petulant one, born of frustration that a "lower-case c conservative" institution has not abandoned that conservatism and whole-heartedly embraced the kind of populism others have. https://t.co/hZxtyNrA7y At least, Vance hopes those cornpone-sucking clodhoppers will fall for his high-dollar schtick… A long-anticipated shoe drops in #OHSen: Peter Thiel is backing a J.D. Vance super PAC to the tune of $10 million. (via @jbalmert) https://t.co/oYnflIxNV9 Vance, like his paymaster Thiel, wants ‘the prol...