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    Hillbilly Elegy uses personal experience to promote stale bootstrap nonsense | Jessa Crispin

    The Netflix film fails to recognize there are large parts of the US that have been abandoned by politicians, employers and educational institutions
    by Jessa Crispin Dec 03, 2020 4 minutes
    Owen Asztalos and Amy Adams in a scene from Hillbilly Elegy. Photograph: Lacey Terrell/AP

    Hillbilly Elegy the book came out at a weird time. Released just a few months before Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States, it was already on the shelves and gaining a respectable audience when those surprised by the results scrambled to find something that would explain these “dangerous” white people they just remembered existed. It became a phenomenon.

    Hillbilly Elegy the movie is also coming out at a weird time. Released on Netflix this week on the heels of the – slim – defeat of Trump at the polls, politicians and thinktanks and cultural elites that disguise themselves as

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