{"id":1588,"date":"2026-06-16T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:12:45","slug":"vances-new-book-ripped-by-conservative-reviewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Vance\u2019s New Book Ripped by Conservative Reviewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance\u2019s new book has been picked apart in a brutal review from the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1586\">Trump Steps Out With Concerning New Mark on Hand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Communion<\/i>, which Vance is touting as a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Catholicism in his mid-30s, did not impress Journal columnist Barton Swaim, who wrote Tuesday that the book suffers from \u201cegregious sloppiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Among Swaim\u2019s issues is Vance\u2019s shifting position on who was to blame for his rough upbringing, marred by addiction and domestic violence. Vance said in his 2016 book <i>Hillbilly Elegy <\/i>that these problems\u201cwere not created by governments or corporations or anyone else,\u201d but by themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, Swaim writes that Vance has conveniently changed his position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Vance now holds that governments and corporations <i>did <\/i>create [his problems], namely by free trade and offshoring,\u201d wrote Swain, who previously was the opinion editor at the conservative Weekly Standard. \u201cAs for the state\u2019s role in welfare dependency, Mr. Vance no longer has much to say about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swaim likened this change in heart to how Vance\u2019s political opinions\u2014such as his views on President Donald Trump, whom he once suggested might be \u201cAmerica\u2019s Hitler\u201d\u2014have shifted as he has climbed the political ladder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese changes of mind more or less tracked his altered views on Donald Trump, which went from scathing in 2016, when Mr. Vance had a book to sell, to laudatory in 2022, when he needed the former president\u2019s endorsement in the Ohio Senate race,\u201d Swaim writes. <\/p>\n<p>Swaim said <i>Communion<\/i>, which totals 304 pages and was promoted by Vance in a messy media blitz this week, reads as \u201cpart religious memoir, part campaign book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReaders familiar with books by ambitious politicians will assume the author of this one has an eye on 2028,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1584\">Trump Foe Roasts White House for Picking Fight With the Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swaim accuses Vance of flip-flopping on his beliefs at opposite ends of <i>Communion<\/i>, in which he writes in its second chapter that economic policies like minimum-wage laws are more complex than they appear and warrant humility. By the book\u2019s 11th chapter, Swaim writes that Vance abandons that nuance and attacks free-market economics using oversimplified caricatures.<\/p>\n<p>Vance was accused of \u201cegregious sloppiness\u201d later in his 11th chapter. Swaim writes that it was either \u201claziness or dishonesty or something else\u201d that led Vance to portray an opinion of Vanessa Brown Calder, formerly of the Cato Institute, inaccurately. The issue at hand was about parental leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA review of states and countries with government-mandated paid leave programs indicates they harm young women,\u201d Calder wrote in a paper cited by Vance. \u201cThis is because parental leave policies are associated with an increase in leave-taking and childbearing, which leads to lost labor or increased health care costs for companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance said that he has never read a \u201cpurer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Swaim says that Vance did not display the whole picture. <\/p>\n<p>He writes, \u201cIf he had read the paper more carefully, or even the next sentence, he would have noticed Ms. Calder\u2019s argument: that mandated parental-leave laws discourage companies from hiring women at all, and that a host of other reforms would give them the freedom to start families without encouraging firms to penalize them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Swaim concluded, \u201cWhether Mr. Vance\u2019s error arose from laziness or dishonesty or something else, I don\u2019t know, but alas it typifies the low regard he has for people who profess views he dislikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1582\">Trump Gives Awkward Response to Keystone Kash\u2019s UFC Boast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance\u2019s new book has been picked apart in a brutal review from the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. 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