We have got to get out of the mindset that the only way to live a good life in this country, the only way for our children to succeed, is to go to a … - JD Vance

Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it — not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.

They thought readin’, writin’, Route 23 would take them to the good life that they had never seen; They didn’t know that old highway would lead them to a world of misery Mamaw

an obvious exception. People talk about hard work all the time in places like Middletown. You can walk through a town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.