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Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard says he’s ‘surprised and disappointed’ by JD Vance
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I have a hard time believing that. Filmed in June 2019, and Vance was elected November 2022, I simply don't buy that he 180'd that hard just a year or two later. Perhaps Vance did not talk about campaign plans on set, but without question his narrow bigoted views would've been made clear. Ultimately, I too am surprised and disappointed, but in Ron Howard for making a movie about this ass.
From 2016. Seems he did drastically change his opinions on trump once in politics.
Vance actually had really good ideas until he went Trump. A mixture of far left and middle right politics. Now you never hear his working class ideas.
It’s hard to imagine this is the guy who said declare war on corporations
Oh wait, did he spend any time implementing them or did he spend his time turning his nonprofit Our Ohio Renewal into a fucking grift?
Bet you can guess the answer.
He's always been a far-right reactionary with paleoconservative views.
He just drifted from the corporate insider Mitt Romney track to the populist outsider Ron DeSantis track as he watched Trump's brand take over the party.
If you consider taxing the rich. Unions and attacking companies as far right then sure. He’s always been far right. It sounds like you’ve never read about Vance and that’s why you don’t see the radical change from who he was to supporting Trump.
Uno Reverse.
Have you even picked up a copy of the original book? He's a staunch and unapologetic drug warrior in that book. He is openly contemptuous of unions. And his "solution" to poverty is just to go to college.
These are classic conservative policy planks endorsed by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
Or you've been suckered in by his bullshit.
So like national socialism then? 🤔
Fascism was originally supposed to be a mixture of "the best parts of the right and the left".
My point exactly (I actually wrote a clarification that pointed out some of the ways in which the right has and currently co opts leftist ideas and language to gain power, including the father of fascism himself Mussolini, but I ended up rambling so I deleted it all and left it as is lol)
There is no compromise between two inherently incompatible views of the world, the one that wants to grow and expand and hoard power and resources at any cost simply won't allow for any real equity or justice (E: or competition!) to exist, it depends on inequality, exploitation, division, and oppression to function, and will consume and destroy anything that gets in its way. It's why capitalism cannot be reformed, it must be abolished.
Or TL;DR:
I think you may be on to something. That may be a better way to describe it.
One couch too many.