The rise of JD Vance – from hillbilly to Capitol Hill
His memoir Hillbilly Elegy was a bestseller; now he’s a Trumpist with political ambitions. Is James David Vance the future of the Republican Party?
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Sarah Baxter is the director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting in New York. She is a former New Statesman political editor and a former Sunday Times deputy editor.
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