Peter Bloom is a Professor at the University of Essex in the UK. His books include 'Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalization' (2016), 'The CEO Society', and most recently 'Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century.
In a move that surprised few but disappointed many, former U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen JD Vance, the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy and junior senator from Ohio, as his potential running mate for the 2024 presidential election. This choice, while generating the expected media buzz, represents far more than just another calculated political maneuver.
His personal narrative—rising from an impoverished Appalachian-adjacent background to Yale Law School and eventual political office—is meant to resonate with voters who feel left behind and 'forgotten' by globalization and technological change. In this way, the GOP is attempting its own version of identity politics, one focused not on racial or ethnic minorities, but on the white working class that forms much of its base.
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