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"J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the book that poor-splained Appalachia to a certain segment of well-off society just ahead of the start of the Trump administration, did a bad tweet Thursday. This is not entirely novel in and of itself: Vance is considering running to replace Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, in 2022, and his tweets have grown worse and worse as the weeks have worn on.
This particular bad tweet, though, is worth our attention not because of who wrote it but because of the fallacy it exposes. Namely, it's that the nuclear family structure Republicans champion, where one parent works and the other raises the children at home, is a structure that literally can’t function these days for many Americans without the type of government intervention that is anathema to them.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Here’s what Vance wrote Thursday: "'Universal day care' is class war against normal people.""*
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