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Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0 (apnews.com)

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His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 64 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Remember how Mike Pence was the reason why everyone was scared in 2016? Some reckoned he was worse than Trump

[–] popcap200@lemmy.ml 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Sure, but I feel like he deserves props for refusing to go along with Jan 6 knowing full well Trump was okay with him being lynched by his mob. One of the scarier aspects to me was him refusing to get in the car with the secret service, presumably because he was scared of where Trump's secret service were going to take him.

Edit: I forgot to make it clear. He's an awful human being with awful evil beliefs, but at least it seems like he's not a fascist, just a christo-nationalist. :l

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

He’s an awful human being with awful evil beliefs, but at least it seems like he’s not a fascist, just a christo-nationalist.

The limbo bar is on the floor. The bar to beat isn't "Person who wants the best version of this country to exist, and sells his base on his vision of that"

The bar to beat is now "Still an awful human who intends to enforce policies that will actively harm millions of Americans......but NOT a fascist!"

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

A Christian nationalist is no better than a Nazi. If your beliefs don’t leave room for other people to live, you can never be on the ‘right’ side.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only because he wasn't a fucking moron, which means he could do a lot more focused damage- and I think we all at least half expected Trump to die in his term and hand it off to him.

He's just mad now that the Fascist Express left without him.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

The difference is that Pence truly believed in the lies Trump was pushing in his first term, and would have done anything he could to make them a reality. For Trump, they were just something you said to get people like Pence to support you while you needed them.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Honestly he deserves to just be left alone and almost forgotten. Him and his family were the target of both sides after 2020.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Was part off an snl skit.