Obviously, since he actually cares about people.
I haven't met a Dimwit that actually cares about the poor people in America.
Dimwits only care about stepping on the poor people to climb higher on their chosen ladder of success.
Read the book. I kind of think he blames
them for their own circumstances, as in being too ignorant and lazy to either get an education, move, or both. Vance went into the USMC, got his act together, and then went to law school. Self-effort, no Big Government, and no excuses or expectations of government to provide big dollar jobs. He claims to still be conservative, but I'm guessing he is more of a moderate Republican than a rabid Trump supporter.
Ironically, most of those high-paying union jobs were off-shored by GOP-leaning corporate management and owners. We live in an interdependent
world economy, where the lowest price producer gets the business. The idiot in the White House lies when he tells his supporters that Big Coal, Big Steel, and US-made autos are roaring back.
They aren't, and they won't.