 You're listening to The Chad Benson Show. 39-year-old James David Vance has been an outspoken advocate for Donald Trump since he began his run for the Senate in 2022. But it wasn't always that way. In 2016, after publishing his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance was a fierce Trump critic, calling the then-candidate cultural heroine. And even in one text message to a former roommate, he called Trump America's Hitler.