A reader responds to the JD Vance piece

Many of you have criticized it, but this email struck me as particularly thoughtful and worth repeating, despite its pointed criticism of me. The class issues here are very real.

This is a very important conversation - it’s about Vance, but it’s also about the rightist/populist movement whose future he now represents. The left wants to call it MAGA or Trumpism, but it is obviously bigger than Trump, and bigger than the United States too.

I wrote the Vance piece knowing a lot of you wouldn’t like it. To me, the fact that my politi…