With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of lovi… - JD Vance

A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.

Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy)

Mamaw and Papaw believed that hard work mattered more. They knew that life was a struggle, and though the odds were a bit longer for people like them, that fact didn’t excuse failure. “Never be like these fucking losers who think the deck is stacked against them,” my grandma often told me. “You can do anything you want to.” Their