Earlier this month, J. D. Vance, a Republican Senate candidate from Ohio and author of the controversial best-seller Hillbilly Elegy, was asked about what he has said is one of the key issues that will define the 2022 elections: the supposed tyranny of the big technology companies.
Vance has promised to try to rein in companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google as part of a populist, far-right platform, one that also calls for hard-line immigration reform and a ban on the teaching of so-called critical race theory in schools. In an ad earlier this year created by a political-action committee, Vance railed against “an elite who don’t actually care about the American nation,” as an image of Mark Zuckerberg flashed across the screen.
