Why Hillbillies Love Trump

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🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Leon Neyfakh talks to J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, about why the folks from back home are supporting Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Trump is the Trump you want to meet him.
0:01.6	I love you, sir!
0:04.5	Nobody uses any Russian slaves.
0:06.4	Nobody calls me the unwir.
0:08.0	It's microaggressions.
0:09.0	He does not support Mexicans,
0:10.4	not Jews,
0:11.2	not mothers,
0:12.0	not blacks,
0:12.7	no one but his own hands.
0:14.2	He's a rich.
0:16.0	When Trump says we'll lose our country,
0:17.8	that's not just a,
0:18.8	I mean, maybe he's being a little street cop.
0:21.4	Stop!
0:22.4	Stop!
0:24.0	Hello, welcome to Trumpcast,
0:30.0	the show about the proud loving owner of a six foot six boy named Eric Donald Trump.
0:34.0	I'm Leon Nefak, your guest host until Jacob Weisberg comes back from vacation,
0:38.0	which I'm told will be next week.
0:40.0	We're recording this on Friday afternoon at the end of a long and painful week
0:43.2	that saw two high profile police killings in a terrifying rampage in Dallas
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