• 2016, a liberal reader of Rod Dreher’s blog, “Surly,” excitedly gifted Rod a Kindle version of Hillbilly Elegy.
• Rod got excited reading it and interviewed the author for the American Conservative.
• The interview went viral. Servers crashed. Everyone wanted a piece of J.D. Vance. Hillbilly Elegy sold 3 million copies. Ron Howard made a movie of it.
• Now it appears that we’re all going to get a piece of J.D. Vance, good and hard.
• Rod Dreher is now a friend of our likely VP, and indeed “made him” in a sense.

(Ain’t That America? ━ The European Conservative)