From being a ‘never Trump’ man to now being his operating mate within the upcoming election as Vice President. J.D. Vance is able to help the previous forty fifth president’s marketing campaign of “Make America Great Again.”
James David Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio on August 2, 1984. The 39-year-old joined the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduating highschool and took on the position of a fight correspondent. J.D. has grown in a household that confronted poverty, low-paying jobs, and drug abuse, he famous this all in his memoir,
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
The politician gave readers a glimpse into his life rising up, and the way he needed to witness many points. “I was like a lot of kids who grew up in this environment. I was not doing especially well in school, I was starting to experiment with drugs and alcohol,” he stated throughout an interview with Hoover Instituion in 2016.
He famous in his memoir, “We didn’t live a peaceful life in a small nuclear family. We lived in a chaotic life in big groups of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins.”
James recalled that the rationale as to why his tradition could have an habit with opioid is due to the economic system. He informed Channel 4 News in 2016, “The economy in this area [Kentucky] has been really hard hit, you know, these are areas that depended on coal mines, on steel mills, on another manufacture industries that just don’t exist anymore or atleast don’t exist in quite the volume needed to support a local economy. So what’s happened is that as people have lost jobs, people have lost hope. They’ve really, I think in some ways, turned over to other habits, or other things to try to dull that pain.”
“That’s a big part of where this opioid crisis comes from, it’s not just people who like drugs or want to be addicted to drugs. It’s that they’re really trying to find something to do, something to dull that pain that comes from living in areas that are really struggling.”