did not know the guy went on American Conservative to promote it

and the real clincher is him thanking Amy Chua for the book imo - the lady who justifies torturing her children as "tiger parenting"

oh yeah i listen to a podcast by appalachian leftists and they fuckin hate this book and guy

i had never heard of it before but it sounds like hot garbage

it came out in the middle of a huge burst of "will someone think of the trumpers" books and articles i thought it was those books written by centrists who plead to reach across the aisle

so i actually had no idea that he was a conservative

he's very bootstraps oriented i believe

ah a classic

he's also not actually raised in the area he acts like he has some entitlement to

he was raised in a wealthier area not far from it

he's just another in a long line of conservatives trying to play that they're rednecks because they can profit off the aesthetic. duck dynasty dudes did the same thing

it's also super easy to convince people in other parts of the country that redneck = automatically poor, there are plenty of fuckin hillbillies all over (including where i'm at) with ritzy trucks and lots of money, usually at the expense of other people in their communities

yes especially at a time where people felt like they needed to blame the poor for voting trump when............. they can't look inwards tbh

it's why a bunch of libs claimed the guys who were trying to kidnap gretchen whitmer were poor and driven to it by economic reasons, because one was from a rural area and his house had a barn near it

..............did not hear about that but sigh

knew about the kidnapping, not the defence