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Or are we mired in the deindustrialized dystopia Vice President JD Vance described last week in Ohio? Where American-born factory workers are offing themselves in despair, and students can’t afford burritos? 

Vance is doing his best to square the two. Speaking to a sea of hard hats in Middletown, the vice president blamed “40 years of bad policy” for America’s hard times and praised Trump’s economic policies as the beginning of a long-term fix. 

“I’m not saying it’s going to be easy or it’s all going to happen overnight,” Vance said. “But in just........

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