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For JD Vance, foreign policy starts at home
When JD Vance released his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” in 2016, which charted an impoverished Rust Belt upbringing and rise through the Marines and Yale Law School, it caught the eye of Donald Trump. In it, the Iraq veteran describes his hometown’s worldview …