J.D. Vance Wrote a Book to Convince You His Wife Doesn’t Hate Him

J.D. Vance Wrote a Book to Convince You His Wife Doesn’t Hate Him

By

Ginny Hogan,

a writer and stand-up comic based in New York City

I got a colonoscopy on Friday. If only that were the least pleasant experience of my last week. But no, that would be when I pulled an all-nighter on Monday reading Communion, J.D. Vance’s new book. Communion is ostensibly the story of the vice-president finding his way back to Christianity — specifically Catholicism, though he only briefly touches on the distinction. The book starts off autobiographical, but by the end it devolves into heavy-handed defenses of policies and his Trump conversion. Apparently he only pretended to hate Trump so he could fit in with the big, mean, judgmental liberal elites. And in one hilarious chapter, he explains why economic data is all fake. Very convenient, sir. I see what you did there.