“ Vance frames the book as a chronicle of overcoming severe economic disadvantage. But the details of Vance's own writing don't point to a childhood of material deprivation. Instead -- despite the myriad troubles faced by his mother with substance abuse -- Vance was raised in middle-class comfort. At one point, his parents enjoyed a six-figure income.”

Wait, WHAT?!?! SIX FIGURE INCOME?!?!

Golf lessons and generational wealth?

He didn’t grow up poor!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-stolen-valor-140000008.html