“... who ran a strong campaign in red Ohio, lost by 6.6 points to the right-wing pseudo-populist J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about growing up among poor whites in Appalachia that made him a darling of liberals in New York and Hollywood. Not long after Ron Howard’s adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy came out in 2020, ...”

“... the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, is a disciple of Straussianism, and his protégé J.D. Vance has spoken at Claremont Institute events. The attempted election grab of 2020-21 has been described as ‘a coup in search of a legal theory’: John Eastman, the director of the Claremont Centre for Constitutional Jurisprudence, provided the theory in a ...”

“... in Glendale, Arizona. Donald Trump anointed Kirk as a blessed martyr to American liberty, and J.D. Vance prophesied a 21st-century Great Awakening, a revival that would celebrate Kirk’s life and appeal to the saviour he followed for guidance and protection. Today around a quarter of US citizens identify as Roman Catholic – a proportion that has remained ...”

“... it characterises as ‘censorship’. (At around the same time, the vice president, J.D. Vance, described the EU’s decision to sanction X for its failure to comply with basic transparency requirements as an attack on free speech.) On Christmas Eve, the administration announced that it had revoked the visas and green cards of five Europeans who had ...”

“... up a pro-Reform think tank called the Centre for a Better Britain, has been a close friend of J.D. Vance since 2019; last year, Politico described him as the vice president’s ‘English philosopher king’. According to a leaked document published by the Sunday Times, the CBB is seeking to raise £25 million before the next election, including from sources ...”

“... the anti-eugenics arguments of the 1970s. With Trump’s re- election on a ticket with J.D. Vance, an obsession with the ‘great replacement theory’ is now at the heart of executive power. Like Trump, Vance is a creature of finance who presents himself as something else. He has benefited both from a fiscal ...”

“... from lower courts. No one seemed certain how long Trump would listen to the courts anyway. J.D. Vance, in a frequently quoted podcast from 2021, said he hoped Trump would ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state.’ He added: ‘When the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and ...”

“... Men’ to study male ‘syntax, language and content’.Among my friends, the sort of women J.D. Vance likes to mock as miserable losers, the male loneliness crisis became a bitter joke. We discussed possible cures: becoming a Deadhead, getting into cycling, poker nights. We made approving comments when we saw straight guys doing things together, like the ...”

“... be depicted by Don DeLillo and others as transmission belts of paranoia and confusion. Unlike J.D. Vance and conservative podcasters such as Ben Shapiro and the late Charlie Kirk, Updike was never in thrall to American exceptionalism. He never longed to return to an imaginary yesteryear when everyone knew their place and personal pronouns were as distinct as a ...”

“... will be fought between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (currently aged 36) or Jon Ossoff (39) and J.D. Vance (41) or – gulp – Donald Trump Jr (48). What price gerontocracy then?In fact, the real evidence that power in the United States has been tilted towards the old and away from the young can be found outside the hurly-burly of presidential politics, which ...”

“... in which it is argued the wrong people have been losing’. (The problem with globalisation, J.D. Vance said recently, wasn’t that it was unfair, but that it was causing rich countries such as America to lose their place at the top of the international pecking order.) Yet, as it turns out, its real economic benefits can be relatively meagre (average incomes ...”

“... idiotic moral crusade. He cleaved to the views of those in the US – such as Elon Musk and J.D. Vance – who had decided that Zelensky and his European dupes were the real menace. War has a nasty habit of revealing where British political figures really stand on the question of the country’s relationship with Europe because it also means confronting ...”

“... all.’ Altman can’t possibly think that typing a few words into an image generator – ‘J.D. Vance kissing a frog in the style of Studio Ghibli’ – is a form of creativity. His advisers would certainly have told him Miyazaki’s views, if he didn’t already know them. In saying what he did, was Altman displaying the boyish enthusiasm of a 40-year-old ...”

“... are as likely to associate America with Coltrane, Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé as with Trump, J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. Like Beauvoir and James, they know that another country exists in America, one that’s immediately evident when you walk into a bookshop in Paris, Berlin or Madrid stocked with translations of Baldwin, Audre Lorde, bell ...”

“... as a possible prime minister: in 2011, in a Romanian newspaper that ran photos of him practising judo under the headline ‘See why technocrat Călin Georgescu is called “Putin of Romania”,’ and in 2016, by the Russian propaganda channels Sputnik and RT. Other than that, and a thin résumé of government posts a generation ago, his public career has ...”