Conservatives Still Deplorable

Last year, I read JD Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy. This year, it's back in the news since there's a movie version of the story on Netflix. 

I listened to part of an interview of JD Vance on the Dailywire.

I got to thinking. This book was a semi-big deal when it came out during Trump's tenure (it was on many book club lists). It gave  coastal elites a glimpse into the lives of likely Trump voters and how to potentially manipulate them.
Now, the critics detest the movie version since it doesn't go into politics really at all (according to the director Ron Howard), and poor white people are not to be pitied on-screen in any way.

I think they also detest it because they believe the book's usefulness is over, and they no longer have to pretend as a group to seem interested in the largest poor group in in the US: poor and/or blue collar, white Trump voters.

BTW, in the end, it doesn't matter what race is portrayed in the book or movie. We should be interested in the plight of our fellow Americans in general, no matter what color, born or preborn.