What J. D. Vance does on, or to, his couch is his own business. Sexual preferences between consenting adults, and furniture, is a private matter. (Vance isn’t the first writer whose publications have come back to bite him.) Forgive and forget. And maybe reupholster. What Vance has done that’s unforgivable is betray the poor. I read Hillbilly Elegy years ago and was taken by his enumerating the harms visited on the poor by our capitalistic system. Having grown up poor myself, I found many of those damages in my own self-inventory. But even just after I read the ...
