I'm still not totally sold on JD Vance. Sure, he's a decent public speaker, but I'm not feeling the charisma. (This may, in fact, be one of the reasons why Trump picked him. Having a second alpha on the ticket would make Trump look bad.) I'm slowly making my way through Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy, and even several chapters in, the book feels like a PowerPoint presentation of local Kentucky/Ohio history, with some colorful characters (mainly Mamaw, Papaw, and some uncles) but no actual plot. It's not so much a narrative as a pastiche, a series of loosely connected thoughts and images. It's well written, at least from a proofreader's perspective: the English is clean, with few to no typos, so I can thank Cthulhu for that. Otherwise, it's kind of a plotless slog: I keep expecting the narrative to pick up speed and go somewhere. On the brighter side, Vance is proving not to be a pushover as Donald Trump's running mate, what with his comments about "childless cat ladies" and such. Mentally, Vance is fast on his feet. Despite this, the latest "point" being made by the Harris-led opposition is that Vance is "weird." Here's Nick Freitas on that.
UPDATE: "weird" really is a campaign strategy:
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