People who are overly proud of their heritage often have little to be proud of in their life.

“That answer would also reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists,” he said — referring, without explanation, to the Anti-Defamation League — “even those very Americans” who “had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.” For Vance, this is simply unacceptable. “I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War,” he said, “have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.”

This is a perfect encapsulation of reactionary ideology: they see conservative identity as paramount. Many of those people's ancestors fought to get out of the United States, but he counts them as more American because of their conservative identity.

Reactionaries genuinely believe that they should get more rights simply because of who they are. They are fighting for a highly regimented society where you get better treatment from the government based on how conservative you are.

Just more racism, add it to the pile

For Vance, this is simply unacceptable. “I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War,” he said, “have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.”

How's this for a radical point of view:

I think people whose ancestors fought for the wrong side in the Civil War have a lot less claim over America than the people who become citizens after the Civil War.

So a couch fucker thinks he's superior because of his hillbilly heritage?

Dude just say its because you're white

My ancestors goe back to the colonies before the United states existed., and through first nations Before.

Doesn't mean fuck all. An accident of birth does not elevate a person past another.

JD Vance is and always was a classist prick who enjoys looking down on people he considers beneath him. Dude work a book about it.

This is some straight up "pure blood royal" bullshit.

Tiered living is exactly what all of this looks like all the time, with shitty people making flimsy excuses why others don't deserve what they do.

Fuck this clickbait title.