Who Does JD Vance Think He Is?

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics.

Whenever Vice President JD Vance takes the microphone, he has to decide which combination of his multiple identities to select for the specific audience before him, a choice he sometimes seems to find bewildering.

The range of Vance’s mix-and-match choices includes hillbilly, intellectual, Trump........

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