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Who Is Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy For?


The streamer’s adaptation of J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir is an exercise in elite arrogance.

The USA network put its own spin on the genre with its Outsiders series, revolving around a hill clan so isolated they still speak a Celtic language and make magical moonshine that turns people violent. A story that, in Ron Howard’s hands, has been stripped of all the vitriolic conclusions the right wing could use.There’s more to say about Dreher, whose fear of migration is matched only by his contempt for trans people (you need only Google his byline to find the evidence). Last year, he appeared with Thiel, Senator Josh Hawley, and other luminaries at a conference on “national conservatism,” where he criticized libertarianism, then attacked pornography and the government itself for allowing such obscene material to exist.

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