Mike Pence Sold His Soul for Nothing - He was honorable on January 6th, but not before or after.
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Pence prostituted his reputation for Christian piety to the most vile figure in the history of American presidential politics, a man who modeled the opposite of every virtue taught in Sunday school. Pence lent his credibility as a religious man to a villain, and gave permission to millions of self-styled Christians to vote for him. Pence’s pious conscience was remarkably quiescent when Trump encouraged his followers to rough up hecklers; when he bore false witness against Muslim Americans (falsely claiming that he saw them celebrating after 9/11); when he attempted to extort the president of Ukraine to lie about Joe Biden; when he separated asylum-seeking parents from their children; when he refused to condemn the tiki-torch Nazi wannabes in Charlottesville; when he elevated a series of kooks and conspiracists to high office; and when he insisted that the election had been stolen.
Pence was fine with all of it.
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.......Worse than simply remaining silent, he played the toady with seemingly endless reserves of self-mortification, uttering cringeworthy encomia to Trump’s “broad-shouldered leadership” (a phrase he repeated at least 17 times), and audacious lies about matters big and small.
There was no bottom to Pence’s fawning. To please Trump, he called Joe Arpaio, a convicted criminal (pardoned by Trump) and thuggish abuser of power, a “tireless champion of the rule of law” and said he was “honored” by Arpaio’s presence at his speech. He claimed, preposterously, that Trump had performed magnificently in the face of the COVID pandemic: “President Trump marshaled the full resources of our federal government from the outset. He directed us to forge a seamless partnership with governors across America in both political parties.”
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I don't see much honor in Pence's actions on Jan. 6th or any other day.
If Pence had any honor he would have blown the whistle as soon as he became aware of Chump's plan to stage the coup. That would have been in late November or early December of 2020. Chump told Pence the entire plan, and Pence could have gone to the press and outed all of it. But he kept it all to himself except for a few phone calls to lawyers.
Why didn't he blow the whistle? I don't know but I can guess he had a lot of craven fear of Chump's evil ways. Also he knew the plan was illegal and unconstitutional, because unlike Chump, Pence has a law degree and he had once been a state governor. But most of all, Pence thought "Hey, maybe this coup might work. If it does work I need to stay on his good side, without actually helping the coup. If it doesn't work, I need to show plausible deniability - that I acted within the scope of the Constitution."
Mike Pence did the very minimum on January 6th He kept his head down, and hid out in the basement of the Capitol. Has anyone asked why he brought his wife to the Capitol that day, even though all this shit was going down? Maybe he thought she would make a good shield, just in case.
