Episode 95 - Hillbilly Smellegy feat. Matt Sitman (3/30/17) (Patreon)
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2017-03-30 22:41:36
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2020-08-11 17:19:57
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Commonweal editor Matt Sitman joins us to take apart everyone’s favorite new pathological study of the American yokel, “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance. We discover that Vance, who has ditched his beloved hillbilly roots to become a venture capital Silicon Valley vampire, is an Ohio version of Raylan Givens.
Here is Matt’s personal essay in Dissent on abandoning the conservatism he learned in his blue collar upbringing: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/leaving-conservatism-behind-blue-collar-republican-progressive