From "What Is Usha Vance Thinking? The veep candidate’s wife is the child of immigrants, a former Democrat, a highly skilled lawyer — and a total mystery" (NY Magazine).
"According to J.D., in Hillbilly Elegy, Chua told Vance he should focus on his relationship rather than chasing clerkships like many of his peers.... Sofia Nelson, who ended a close friendship with J.D.... says that near the end of law school, J.D. told her that he was open to being a stay-at-home dad.... It was important to J.D. that their family, unlike the one of his childhood, all share the same name, and Hamel, his surname at the time, came from a stepfather who was only in his life briefly. J.D. told at least two friends that he was open to taking Usha’s last name, Chilukuri. In the end, the two chose Vance, the name of the maternal grandparents who largely raised him."
Much more at the link.
22 comments:
I can't see Trump picking a guy named Chilukuri for a running mate.
Why didn't Kamala Harris go by her mother's name?
Maybe she dreamed to be like her father.
Did you read 'Dreams of my Father' before or after Obama won?
The article describes two gifted young people artfully slaloming through highly competitive social/intellectual environments that tend to exclude or stigmatize people with conservative beliefs. At that age, I would have lacked the poise and sophistication needed to pull it off.
Easier to identify as Black with the name Harris than with the name Gopalan.
I got to put that word 'slaloming' away for a snowy day. (better than rainy day)
Conservative men are hot. What does a woman really want with a guy who is so afraid of responsibility for his actions that he will make the right to abortion a top priority?
First spouse on a ticket that I've liked since Barbara Bush.
Vance has committed the biggest sin imaginable to a leftist- he has betrayed the elite left who thought to keep him as a pet.
There is a difference between yesterdays Democrats and the Progressives who took the party over. That's why normal Democrats are leaving the party. The party left them.
Trump would have then sold pizza from 7-11
slaloming vs salaaming
Probably the same reason Barry didn't promote his mom, grandma or grandpa.
You mean that book by Ayers?
Never read it, I did like the cover story for Barry's campaign start in Bill's living room. Very "Kamalaesque".
%100
Well said. Before I was invited to the [extended] family book club, they read "Hillbilly Elegy" to try and understand "Trump" voters - they believed that Trump voters were rural, stupid, poor - and "white" of course. I joined a couple of years later and they still admired JD - after all, he had criticized Trump in 2016. Alas. . . .he is no longer their pet. 😥
So Hillary has been tossed under the bus in order to attack JD Vance? That's interesting. I wonder if Barack will be introduced to the 'wheels go round and round' and if so, when
Not knowing how Indian surnames are given to the children, wouldn't her mother's surname be her mother's father's surname? (Guessing here on my phone.)
Thanks. That's exactly what I got out of that description. I was a in a similar environment when I was young, and did not have the same success. It all worked out, though.
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