The press has been hard at work demonizing JD Vance, Trump’s pick for his running mate, holding endless pained segments about his calling certain voters “childless cat ladies” and trying to make controversies out of his every utterance.
Their newest line of attack is to call him “weird,” and no sooner had Minnesota’s Dem Gov. Tim Walz come out with that scathing line of attack did all of Kamala-world march in lockstep and start using it constantly. When your best line of attack against your opponent is that he’s “weird”—especially when he doesn’t seem particularly strange—you know you’re fighting a losing battle.
It would appear that many Americans see through the propaganda, however, and they want to know more about this man’s life story from someone who knows it best: JD Vance himself.
Guess what book is at the top of the charts as I write this? Yup, it’s his “Hillbilly Elegy” memoir:
Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” returned to the top spot as the No. 1 bestselling book in the U.S. this week — and sources close to the campaign told Fox News Digital it shows that voters are interested in getting to know former President Trump’s running mate.
Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was originally published in June 2016, reclaimed the top spot on major bestseller lists this week, including The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly and USA Today.
The New York Times must have been choking when they had to print that one.
Wow, the first page of Hillbilly Elegy.
“I’ve accomplished nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify a complete stranger paying money to read about.”
And now he’s a VP nominee. An amazing climb. pic.twitter.com/3txCGAorki
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) July 24, 2024
Forbes reported Wednesday that sales are up a staggering 13,000 percent:
https://t.co/FB964UD4qk
Hillbilly Elegy sales soared 13,000% when J.D. Vance became the veep nominee.
This is unusual in the publishing world, but not completely rare. Our “Patriot’s History” shot up to #1 after Glenn Beck discussed on his show in 2010.
— Larry Schweikart (@LarrySchweikart) July 31, 2024
Vance in the spotlight:
WATCH: JD Vance Visits Southern Border, Calmly Blisters ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris
‘Weird’: The Harris Campaign’s Line of Attack Against JD Vance Isn’t Going Well
JD Vance Claps Back at Kamala Harris After She Questions His Loyalty: What Have YOU Done for the Country?
Guess what else is seeing a resurgence in interest? The movie adaptation of Vance’s powerful tale:
A film adaption of the memoir, released in 2020, also has seen an uptick in viewership since Trump named Vance his running mate. The film has shot up to the No. 9 spot on Netflix’s list of top 10 movies. A source familiar told Fox News Digital that viewers have watched nearly six million hours of the film.
RedState’s Ward Clark gave it a ringing endorsement:
Movie Review for Our Time: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
The renewed interest in both the book and the movie shows that not every American wants to get their opinions from the leftists at MSNBC or the hyperpartisans at the NY Times. People may or may not like every single one of his policies or even every sentence that’s come out of his mouth, but it certainly doesn’t seem like he’s this type of “weird,” racist monster that the Democrats are trying to pretend he is.
People can decide for themselves.
