while J.D. Vance's hillbilly ancestors may not have been the inbred, possum-eating, superstitious bushwhackers of legend and lore, as they descended on Ohio from the hills of Kentucky they had more than a little in common with the Haitian immigrants Sen. Vance now spends his days vilifying in terms that would have been familiar to Fritz Hippler, the filmmaker whose 1941 propaganda film Der ewige Jude comes to its climax with images of leering kosher butchers covered in the blood of animals slaughtered in the service of "the so-called Jewish religion." Lord Acton would have us believe that it takes absolute power to corrupt absolutely. But even the dream of the vice presidency"that "bucket of warm piss" in the immortal words of Vice President John Nance Garner"will do the trick, if you are the right kind of person.