JD Vance with tears in their eyes make the sad announcement…

There was a time when we thought 2016 was the “worst” year — do you remember? Before the Trump years, the border camps, the pandemic, the disintegration of news media, and the final destabilization of the climate.

Ah, hindsight! But we did see something in 2016 that presaged the future. We saw the success of a strange book, a requiem for good old days that never were, a bit of moralizing nonsense wrapped in false dichotomies and American myths (and not a few outright lies). I speak, of course, about Hillbilly Elegy.Yes, JD Vance wrote a book about how his family and community are a lost cause to be rejected while he sought greatness by going to Yale. And…