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Can We Finally Stop with Mike Pence [1]

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Date: 2023-11-29  

For more than a year, I have been pumping the breaks on the Mike Pence hero worship, along with better minds than me. Yesterday, the collective media finally jammed the brake pedal to the floorboards. Resisting every urge—to say I told you so, ABC News revealed that the former Vice President had planned to be a no-show on January 6, shirking his Constitutional responsibility to tally and confirm the electoral count and declare Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the duly elected President and Vice President of the United States. His son reportedly advised Mr. Pence to be what he has repeatedly claimed in his failed campaign for the Republican nomination for president: a patriot, “ You took the same oath I took ,” Lt. Michael J. Pence told his father.

I must credit Republicans who never accepted Pence’s faux bravery in the face of a challenge to democracy and rejected him out of hand. In the same vein, I was dismayed by my fellow Democrats who set aside his starry-eyed loving gaze at Donald Trump, his blind devotion to the derisive attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, his collaboration in the deaths of thousands of Americans during the pandemic, and quietly tagging along with his boss’s praise of dictators, murderers, and autocrats, then labeling him as brave for following the law. Mr. Pence has tried to excuse his behavior, saying the VP’s job is to back the chief executive. Maybe Mr. Pence should have taken more advice from his son, who would have also told him the duty to abort an illegal or immoral order is also a part of the job.

Mr. Pence’s hypocrisy has been breathtaking. An illustration of that could not have been more evident than at his first campaign event in June. The media feted Pence for what they described as a blistering attack on Mr. Trump, where he said , [Trump] “demanded I choose between him and our Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice.” Later in that same address, he stated, “I believe anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States, and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again,” the former vice president said .

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