 to become a husband and a father, and to build the kind of tight-knit family that he had longed for as a child. Now, the magic of J.D. Vance, just in terms of him as a politician and as a person, is his life story. J.D. Vance is a Republican. He's a Republican who at the age of 31 wrote a book that Hollywood made into a movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.