 that person was out the door you didn't hear from him anymore you heard this kind of very aggressive way of talking about immigrants this real lack of nuance when so much of what defined him before was a whole bunch of nuance i mean one of the reasons that hillbilly elegy was widely read and widely liked i would say across the political spectrum in a lot of ways i mean there were certainly detractors but it was something that got a lot of respect from a lot of quarters was that he