Five years ago, J.D. Vance received accolades for his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Ron Howard made a movie of the book, starring Glenn Close as the matriarchal grandmother of Vance's clan.
Now Vance is running for Senate in Ohio and the elitists are shunning him. CNN sent its cyber-bully, Andrew Kaczynski, to get something on Vance.
4 years ago, KFile (as he calls himself) threatened to dox a teenager who dared to upload a video mocking CNN.
Politico reported on Monday, "J.D. Vance, the bestselling author and a Republican Senate hopeful, said on Monday that he regretted his since-deleted Twitter posts that criticized Donald Trump, amid accusations of flip-flopping as he vies for a seat in Ohio.
"Vance, the author of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, launched his campaign last week. He has come under fire for deleting tweets from 2016 that were unearthed by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski — including one in which he said he was voting for Evan McMullin, and another calling Trump reprehensible because of his views toward 'Immigrants, Muslims, etc.'
"A recent Daily Beast column ran with the headline 'Hypocrite's Elegy: J.D. Vance Is an Avatar of GOP Corruption,' and Democrat Tim Ryan, who is vying for the Ohio Senate seat, tweeted: 'Vance and I have exactly one thing in common — neither of us voted for Donald Trump.'"
This is not news.
Vance was quite open about his feelings toward The Donald 5 years ago.
Vance told USA Today, "I love the way (Trump) criticizes party elites, but really dislike the candidate himself. I'm definitely not supporting Trump, though I probably won't vote for Hillary either — she just seems like she doesn't care about the people I grew up around."
He's not changed his political position. He still believes in Trump supporters.
But having watched President Trump for 4 years, Vance realized he was wrong, and changed his mind.
That's called maturity, not hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is when you say one thing and do another. Elitists do that, a lot. For all his success, Vance has not become an elitist.
He told Politico, "Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016, and I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak."
We need converts.
He now accepts Donald Trump as the party's leader, warts and all. While I like Trump's antics, I get that some people dislike them. They can say what they want. I just want their vote on Election Day.
Vance faces Josh Mandel, another young Ohio conservative, in the Republican primary next May. I have not voted in Ohio since leaving in 1981. I have no preference.
But I will be darned if I will allow CNN and Politico to call someone a hypocrite simply because he grew the hell up. I wish all Never Trumpers would.
Remember this Jonah Goldberg column from April 16, 2016?
I had tweeted him, "You will come around. Others may not because they are childish."
He devoted a column to reply, "No, I Will Never ‘Come Around’ to Supporting Trump."
I read it and heard:
I won't grow up
(I won't grow up)
I don't wanna go to school
(I don't wanna go to school)
Just to learn to be a parrot
(Just to learn to be a parrot)
And recite a silly rule
(And recite a silly rule)
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up... Not me
Not I
Not me (not me)
That is not Vance's song.
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