The Troubling History Behind J.D. Vance’s Style of Rhetoric. 8 minute read. J.D. Vance speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

J.D. Vance looks annoyed. It’s a Tuesday afternoon in August, and we’re sitting near the front of his campaign plane, flying from a rally in Michigan to a fundraiser in Tennessee.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports on the evolution of Donald Trump’s Vice-Presidential nominee as a U.S. Marine, a Yale law student, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” and an Ohio senator.

The poll—from The Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos—finds that overall perceptions of Vance are far more negative than those of Governor Tim Walz. While 42 percent of Americans view Vance ...