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Vance the Ruthless' Hillbilly Law

2025-03-03 18:01:05Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MONICA MAGGIONI
Zelensky, Trump and Vance

“You went to Pennsylvania in October to campaign for the opposition”: pointing the finger at Zelensky, Vice President Vance launches the final attack on the Ukrainian president from the yellow couch in the Oval Office, in a masterfully constructed performance.

The goal: to put Zelensky in a bad light, to ridicule him in the eyes of the American public, all to make peace with Putin, which instead is in fact a surrender of Ukraine, more reasonable and acceptable.

Nothing in that scene in front of the cameras happened by chance. The violent argument was not an "accident" along the way.

Trump watches in a daze as his deputy orchestrates an attack on the Ukrainian president like never before in history within the walls of the Oval Office. Reporters are stunned.

It might seem like Vance was defending his President from Zelensky's refusal to bow his head.

But no! Vance wasn't defending Trump. Vance was playing JD Vance at his purest. A rough, tough man who calculates every move.

Remember his silence in the hours immediately after Trump was sworn in? Some labeled him another shadowy, silent vice president, drawing bold comparisons to the faded, silent, and irrelevant Kamala Harris after Biden.

Wrong! JD Vance is silent when he thinks it's time to build the next move. He doesn't let you predict. He doesn't reveal.

JD knows how to fight, he knows how to punch, he knows how to fight like only a true Hillbilly can.

He grew up in the poorest, most rugged hills in the United States. Where white people live in scary dens in the trees, eat toxic, high-calorie foods, and survive on meager government subsidies after the mines closed. And children fight in the woods.

Vance spent his childhood in Ohio, spending winters near the steel mill where his father worked, watching his mother deteriorate with drugs and no possible future.

Summer for him, a time of true relief and freedom in Jackson, Kentucky, at his grandmother's house.

JD often returns here, they proudly point out to the town. His family grave is a small patch of land with faded fake flowers and a torn, rusty wire fence.

He returned there eight years ago with Ron Howard, the great Hollywood director, when they were shooting the film Hillbilly Elegy based on his novel “An American Elegy.” He then bought a small farm.

Hillbilly Elegy sold millions of copies, the movie was a hit, and he became famous. His face became famous.

But his ascent had already begun. On a night of tragedy, faced with his mother's successive descent into hell, he had chosen to leave and pursue his own very difficult path to success.

He leaves. They accept him at Yale, then at big law firms. And then the meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire philosopher from Silicon Valley and founder of PayPal.

Thiel works with secret services around the world thanks to his Palantir.

The German-born billionaire who never appears in public except when giving long philosophical lectures, in which he talks about the humanity to come, his dream of a government-free universe dominated by freedom, and the apocalypse that awaits us. JD Vance and Peter Thiel work together, multiplying billions.

JD also becomes rich, very rich. But they have power in mind. Politics. Even though JD has already become the narrator of America's poor, left-behind whites. The bottom of the social ladder. All those who vote for Trump.

At first he is against Trump, then, with Thiel, they are convinced that Trump is the best key, the one ready, to come to power. The one who, with his being outside the schemes by nature, will allow them to build a new world without institutions, without rules, with only individuals building their own future.

Because this is Vance's paradox. When he thinks about his world, about the workers of Ohio, about the unfortunates of Kentucky, he doesn't believe that the poor, the last, are the product of an unjust society. On the contrary, he thinks that they are those who don't fight hard enough. Who don't suffer to build the future. Who fall into the traps of a system that leads you to dream of what you can't have, to go into debt to have more, and then collapse.

A corrupt system that in schools, instead of training young people ready to fight, distracts them with speeches about "gender" that weaken society.

On the other hand, he himself started there and succeeded. Others should therefore go through the same struggle as he did.

There is never any discussion of possibilities in Vance's story, which evolves and becomes increasingly uncompromising over the years, to the point where he continues to fantasize, along with Thiel, about a model of an elitist society. Hypermeritocratic. With no room for welfare, inclusion, and building roads for those who have less.

It imagines a world in which America is dominant and US engagement – ??including military engagement – ??is measured solely by the benefit to the United States itself.

Economic and strategic benefit becomes the only means of evaluation.

Three years ago, speaking to Steve Bannon himself on one of his “War Room” podcasts, during the days when he was running for senator from Ohio, he bluntly said: “I think it’s ridiculous that we keep focusing on the Ukrainian border, I don’t care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”

And what's more, says Vance, "American aid to Ukraine is a way to finance a Europe that does nothing."

He is harsh, piercing, direct to the point of cruelty whenever he says what he thinks.

European leaders had still not recovered from his speech about a "Europe that does not protect free speech" at the Munich conference two Sundays earlier.

To a stunned audience he had forcefully declared: “In the UK and across Europe, I fear that freedom of speech is in retreat. You can’t force innovation or creativity, it seems, just as you can’t force people to think or feel or believe, and we believe that these things are certainly linked. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the winners of the Cold War.”

He was referring to many things at once, the Romanian judiciary's initiative to block the pro-Russian candidate, the policies for spreading hate speech and fake news on social media, but the main thing was the tone.

A harsh and challenging tone towards Europeans and their vision of the world.

In recent days, elderly Europeans have been subjected to the same treatment by the new American vice president, Zelensky.

They are ridiculed because they are drowned in rules and are considered an obstacle in the path of realizing a global project in which international institutions disappear, only economic reasons prevail, and in which, a fundamental elitism, in fact considers America "first" because it is the best.

As in society, only the “best” should have space and power in Vance’s world. After all, this is his story.

In Jackson, the old men sitting at the tables of Arby's on Main Street, eating five-dollar plates of bacon and eggs (the only protein they can have in a day) honor him as a hero.

He is the best because he succeeded and got out of that misery.

Now he will explain to the world what the rules of the game are, because he is not afraid of anything.

The hillbilly who survived his fate will not be a silent vice president. He is a man of a plan, of a disturbing design. He is part of a small but very powerful group of people who have divided the parts in comedy with a clear project in mind.

The journey has just begun./ La Stampa


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