Yes, although I'd forgotten the title. I was reminded of it when I read Hillbilly Elegy. Not taking anything away from J. D. Vance, but Bageant's book made more of an impression, probably because I'm Scots-Irish, and I recognized much of my family in it. Many of them are Trump supporters.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:25 amDid anyone else read a book by Joe Bageant called Deer Hunting With Jesus? I read it a number of years ago, and stumbled across it on my bookshelf again the other day. And it hit me that he was all over the Trump phenomenon well before the rest of us. His book, written in 2007, was basically all about the Trump Deplorables, but in this case it was to do with re-electing G.W.Bush. I picked it up last night and read the intro again, and it's scary how he specifically predicted that these people would elect someone even worse than Bush if the Dems didn't get their heads out of their arses.
So this morning I decided to wiki him to see if he has written a book about Trump yet, but see that he died from cancer in 2011.
Me? I'm from the okay branch of the family. Honest!