Mike Pence gave an interesting speech this week. Which isn’t a sentence you read often. But in his speech in New Hampshire Pence argued that the Republican party is at an inflection point.
The party needs to choose — he said — between “populism” and “conservatism.” In doing so he tried to put some clear, very blue, water between himself and his rivals for the GOP nomination.
Specifically he wanted to take aim at Donald Trump and his “populist proteges,” by which he principally meant Vivek Ramaswamy. Pence himself, meantime, was making a clear grab for the mantle of Ronald Reagan.
It was a good speech. But there was a problem. The actual inflection point for his party was 2016. The election in which Pence proved such a crucial pair of stabilizing wheels. The shift that happened that year cannot be reversed, and should not be.
Because what Trump tapped into that year was a real thing. The growing divide in this country between what the people want and what a small elite at the top of politics, finance and the media want.
The divide between people who make policies and the people who suffer the consequences of them.
Before 2016, it was bad form for Republicans to talk about having a trade war with China. Trump changed all that. He talked about the jobs that been taken away from this country and how to get them back. He talked about illegal migration at the southern border and one particular way of solving it.
Nobody cares what pence thinks, he’s a ZERO
TRaitor who put BIDEN in Stolen Office 2020 !!!!!! Now We Pay the Price !!!!! RUINED !!!
What about the negligent homicide of a Wicomico County Sheriff’s Department K-9 in Sharptown, Maryland?? I can smell a cover up Mike!!
Pence had Top Secret DOCs like Biden !!!! Lock up the VP’s !!!!!!
Biased Democrat Press never even mentions the VP DOCS anymore !!!! COVER-UP !!!!
Yes > They were NOT to EVER be allowed to have them even WHEN in OFFICE !!!!! NOT EVER