American - Author | August 2, 1984 -
I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice - it's about winning.
J. D. Vance
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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office.
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Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't reflects what people like most about him: his complete break with the party elite.
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Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together.
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The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.
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It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.
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I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.
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There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most folks realize I wrote this book not to disparage the hometown but to really try to understand why so many kids who grew up like I did struggled.
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Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.
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The factories that moved overseas used to provide not just high-paying jobs but also a sense of purpose and community.
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Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.
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What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.
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