One detail should not be overlooked when looking back on the Trump era in the future, and he has largely contributed to the prosperity of the publishing industry. The presidential team has a relatively high shuffling rate, and every former official can easily get a publishing contract and recall his far from long White House years, one of which hit the bestseller list one after another. But there is one super bestseller, not by a former official but by JD Vance, the underdog and Yale Law-trained lawyer whose memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” is arguably the hallmark of the Trump era. Sexual Reader. Shortly after this book was published, Trump broke the unprecedented popularity in the history of US presidential elections. The groups described in the book satisfy the curiosity of Americans after being shocked to a certain extent. Which people were ignored by mainstream cognition but contributed to Trump Pu's victory?
"The Countryman's Elegy" was recently adapted into a Hollywood film, but it wasn't as appealing as the original. The film reproduces the problems encountered by poor white people, drug addiction, alcoholism, early pregnancy, domestic violence, boring TV watching, and women moving between different beds. The problem is that it is not easy to see this group's interest in politics in the movie. After they are busy running three meals a day and barely paying rent and utilities, can they still make time to vote for Trump on Election Day? In Vance's original work, the political and ideological expression is far clearer, and he bluntly accuses the community he grew up of of lacking accountability, unintentional self-discipline, and lack of enthusiasm for progress. He also emphasized that the public policies formulated by the government cannot fundamentally solve the problem, and that the key to opening a new life can only be in the hands of each individual and each family.
The liberals who still control the mainstream discourse to a certain extent did not continue to explore along the author's line of thinking, and everyone turned to "too simplistic", "too rough", "ruined houses do not represent poverty", "Appalachian". Life in Yashan is far from being summed up by the word poverty", "a portrait, a book, a film cannot fully reflect life", there are "angry protests, sad music, joyful poetry, active NGOs" On the surface, it is intended to enrich the narrative, but in fact it dilutes the seriousness of the problem. The result of a modest romanticization of poverty may help mainstream writers and mainstream readers regain a sense of comfort, while the Appalachian Mountains remain problematic.
The author himself fights a way to change his personal destiny, in which the element of luck is higher than necessity. He was able to excel academically by the harsh demands of his grandmother, and then through the upside of institutional design, he first joined the Marine Corps to fight in Iraq, then completed Ohio State University with the financial care enjoyed by veterans, and then entered Yale Law School. The chances of Vance's success being replicated are few and far between, but his classmate and Indian-American girlfriend sees America very differently. Usha's parents came to the United States with ease, and after relying solely on personal efforts to successfully establish a foothold, the second generation successfully entered the elite class of American society. Immigrants are more likely to identify with the narrative that America is full of opportunity and how far it can go on its own, but for whites, blacks, and Natives on Appalachians, urban low-income areas, and Indian reservations, break free like JD Vance The constraints of the birth environment are actually much more difficult, and being rooted in American society has become a shackle rather than a booster. To this day, the challenge from poverty can still be summed up in the words of former President Ronald Reagan decades ago: In our war on poverty, it is poverty that wins.
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