Backing racist voting laws and Tucker Carlson’s replacement conspiracies, author, venture capitalist and now populist ‘hero’ J.D. Vance is campaigning for a white American volk. And Jews are central to his ugly narrative

J.D. Vance’s once-vaunted 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,”  was recently turned into an Oscar-bait Netflix film in which Glenn Close delivered crotchety but heartfelt life lessons from, supposedly, the heart of Appalachia. A week ago, Vance used barely concealed fascist rhetoric to call for restrictions on voting rights and the repression of dissent to benefit a nationalist agenda for America.