JD Vance, a venture capitalist turned Ohio senator who rose to fame with his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, once described himself as a “never Trumper”, calling the then – candidate Donald Trump in 2016 an “idiot”, “cultural heroin” and a potential “American Hitler”.
Now the two men are running mates – and the connection seems to be borne of personal affinity rather than cold political calculation.
