Not too long ago, things did not look that great for J.D. Vance. He’d decided to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Ohio, where he had grown up, after becoming famous for writing a book that disparaged the work ethic of the people he’d grown up with. He’d spent his young adulthood outside the state, graduating from Yale Law School and living in Washington and San Francisco. His main career was working as a venture capital investor. Worse than any of that was that he’d also been a public