Anonymous wrote:The troll farms were pushing Vance heavily even in 2016. I remember how many accounts on Yahoo and some other message boards were going on and on about "have you read this book? My book club just read it and now everyone's giving it to their family for Christmas" etc.
I only remember it because I kept thinking it was some book about Bill and Hillary and I was just like, eh that's ok. I'm good
But he was on the foreign radar a while ago. I eventually read the book because my kid came home from college with a syllabus copy, it's not THAT remarkable a work of literature except for basically depicting what a shithole America was for WHITE AMERICANS.
These online race-war campaigns have a long life slow burn that lots of people don't pick up on.
They weren't pushing Vance so much as the Left was pushing this idea that we needed to understand the brains of these deplorables who support Trump, and Trump was a Yale-approved expert who could translate from meth head to liberal. Of course no one actually read the book because it was stupid. Ron Howard capitalized on it, but the book was so bad that he had to rewrite the story for the movie.