Even after his life was endangered during the Capitol insurrection earlier this year that then-President Trump incited, former Vice President Mike Pence has begun boosting the same election falsehoods that incensed the rioters.
Pence started off as a lickspittle, had a singular moment of integrity (but really had no other choice) on January 6th, and now he is back to being a lickspittle, a Supreme Lickspittle. What a coward! What an asshole!
Aw, that’s cute. Pence really thinks he has a shot at reviving his political career in the Trumpist GOP? I never thought I’d see grown men – goddamn senators and representatives – like Pence, Graham, Jordan and others debase themselves so thoroughly and repeatedly for someone who clearly doesn’t give a shit about them. It’s a mind-sucking cult I simply can’t wrap my head around.
Just another point of evidence that Republicans have determined that democracy doesn’t work for them. It’s a dangerous time for our nation now, as a party that could win at the ballot box is turning away from voting and towards anti-democratic means of holding power. Between “legal” methods, like the AZ legislature choosing the state electors regardless of the vote, to outright violence, it’s clear that Republicans are willing to forgo their supposed fealty to the Constitution for their own governmental power. A few officials, doing their duty, managed to head off a Trump dictatorship in 2020…2024 really could turn out different as those people will be swept away by Republicans hell bent on forcing the nation to install them as our rulers.
This is really the end game of the Christian militant movement to create a Christian theocracy in America. It’s going to be a close thing to see if it actually does happen, or if we manage to overcome them and keep the nation free.
There is little qualitative difference between the reality we are living and the movie Idiocracy. Time and again, these people get to the supposed bottom of the barrel and just keep on tunneling.
He’s not exactly boosting the Big Lie unless he said Trump didn’t lose the election. He’s just parroting the party line against expanding the franchise through means like vote-by-mail, because he knows the GOP can’t win that way.