J.D. Vance Brought People Together. Not Anymore.

J.D. Vance, the writer and venture capitalist who might run for U.S. Senate in Ohio, became a media darling by building a bridge between two worlds. Now, he’s using Twitter to set that bridge on fire.

Raised in Appalachia, groomed at Yale Law School, Vance turned his early life into a best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which spun off into a star-studded movie and a distinctive role for Vance in the intellectual world. He could speak the language of both the elites who ran the power centers and the disaffected white voters who had torn up that power by supporting Donald Trump. And while he understood Trump followers, he was firmly anti-Trump.

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