Jamison Foser charts in his emailed newsletter the way that “Elites in academia, the news media, and the entertainment industry hand-picked him, trained him, promoted him, and handed him the most coveted platform in all of journalism. They made him a star before almost anybody had ever heard of his book. (Which by the way was trash.)”
And which he hardly seems even to have written on his own.
As a talent, a writer, a thinker, a politician Vance is less than undistinguished–as a ruthless totalitarian fanatic, and the tool of fascist obligarchs, he is a menace to society.
Vance mastered the sine qua non for advancement in our society: he is adept at sucking up to power.