 At what point do we say the war is a stalemate? It's going to end in a negotiated settlement anyway. Let's stop wasting lives. Let's stop wasting money. And let's get on with the peace. And Trump was quite enamored with the fact that Vance, who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, bestselling book, but about growing up dirt poor. She'd tell me, like a general giving his troops marching orders.