Paul Elie on J. D. Vance’s conversion to Catholicism, and how his “post-liberal” beliefs might affect politics should the Trump-Vance ticket win the 2024 election.
Vance’s success with “Hillbilly Elegy” followed an intense period after his graduation from Yale Law, in 2013: working for the U.S. district-court judge David Bunning and for the giant Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin; a stint in venture capital in Silicon Valley; marriage to Usha Chilukuri, a classmate who served as a clerk to Brett Kavanaugh, then a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.
The thrust of the essay is that becoming a Catholic was a means of defying the patterns of imitation fostered by the “meritocratic master class”—and, not coincidentally, what he saw as its way of inducing its members to believe that “Christians are rubes.” Yet it could be said that in the years after law school Vance simply moved out of one élite and into another—and that he has thrived through mimetic rivalry.
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