Review: Hillbilly Elegy starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams has A-list talent doing poverty porn for trophies

J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was a 2016 bestseller and was held up as an explainer for the newly minted Trump’s America and the “economic anxiety” that precipitated it, downplaying white resentment of a Black president and instead emphasizing the blue-red swing of rural central America as t...