JD Vance exists b/c in the panic after the 2016 election white liberal were desperate for any way to explain/excuse their conservative relatives and instead of listening to black ppl who were screaming "It's the racism" they made Vance a best selling author, which gave him the platform he needed

Exactly this. Speaking as a white person who gets some version of that answer from other white liberals when I say you can’t vote Republican without supporting white supremacy. They CLING to this “explanation” of why their Trump-voting parents aren’t the new Klan

My mother's book club read the goddamned book.

Nor did they want to admit misogyny on their part (remember Hillary's approval ratings were always faborable EXCEPT the two times she ran for president).

Thank you. I've been racking my brain all day, trying to figure out the "how" of this, and this is a good explanation.

See also Peter Thiel funding his campaign

Thanks for the easy block

and Fancy Vancey is a big old racist