A New York Times bestselling author lashed out at the “conservative legal movement” after the Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender employees should be protected from job discrimination.
J.D. Vance, whose 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy provided a look at poor and white working-class people in Appalachia, criticized the ruling on Monday.
“The conservative legal movement has accomplished two things: libertarian political economy (enforced by judges) and betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists,” Vance tweeted.
The next (and perhaps most important) step is for social conservatives to realize that donor economics is not merely incidental. It flows from, and reinforces, principles that degrade family, community, industrial bases, and nations.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 15, 2020
“The next (and perhaps most important) step is for social conservatives to realize that donor economics is not merely incidental,” Vance added. “It flows from, and reinforces, principles that degrade family, community, industrial bases, and nations.”
Earlier on Monday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch joined liberal justices in a landmark 6-3 vote that found that workers cannot be fired for being transgender or gay.
Vance was not the only conservative voice to vent frustration with the ruling.
Daily Wire contributor Michael Knowles wrote that “originalism is dead,” suggesting that the justices had failed to follow the constitutional intentions of documents authored by the Founding Fathers. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tacitly agreed with Vance and Knowles, accusing the justices of changing the definition of biological sex and rewriting federal civil rights laws.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used Vance’s theory to claim that working-class people who were displaced by a loss of manufacturing might and the centralization of the political economy helped spur Trump to victory in 2016.
