Jerry Davich: Politics is the only deity that matters to Mike Pence, a Hoosier who sold his soul to Trump in 2016
“Hang Mike Pence!” This is what rioters chanted as they paraded through the U.S. Capitol last week while hoisting battle flags emblazoned with the name Trump. Outside the building, amid violent chaos, a makeshift gallows and noose loomed within view of the historic assault. Along with all the other lawmakers, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked vice president took cover from the mob of ...
by Jerry Davich, Post-Tribune
Jan 11, 2021
4 minutes
“Hang Mike Pence!”
This is what rioters chanted as they paraded through the U.S. Capitol last week while hoisting battle flags emblazoned with the name Trump. Outside the building, amid violent chaos, a makeshift gallows and noose loomed within view of the historic assault.
Along with all the other lawmakers, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked vice president took cover from the mob of insurrectionists. He didn’t try to talk sense into his people, the base of constituents who once embraced him like a Confederate flag.
Long before Pence served as an Indiana governor, he characterized himself as “a Christian, a conservative
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