We’ve always been yuge J.D. Vance fans in this house. Kinda goes without saying, right?
I mean, obviously, the Marine Corps connection always gives someone an initial leg up in our estimation, but to keep it, you have to earn it.
After reading Hillbilly Elegy, we had a greater appreciation for the young guy we were seeing on CSPAN book tours and reading about in interviews (we still got the NYT delivered back then).
Then he decided to go into politics and wanted to represent Ohio. It seemed like a natural progression, and he seemed like a natural for it.
Vance has an exceptionally easy-going manner, always polite and pleasant, but whipsmart, and can go for the jugular in a confrontation while effortlessly maintaining his serene countenance. Maybe it was surviving and thriving after all the mayhem in his childhood that taught him “water off a duck’s back.”
Whatever it was, I wish…
