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Hearing Pence done with all the bullshit on the night of January 6th and shutting down people who were still trying to throw the election to Trump was the one and only time in his life when I had some respect for him. This is another, maybe the second time.
I think Pence is a genuinely good person who got hamstrung, maybe beyond redemption, by a Christian upbringing. He really wants to do what's right. At least that is my read on him. He's just all twisted up to where he thinks "doing what's right" is all these horrifying things. But I don't think he's faking. I think, unlike almost everyone he hangs out with, he hasn't figured out it's a con, and is very sincere when he says he's doing the best thing for his country and what God wants him to do.
Nobody gets to the position of Trump's VP with clean hands. It's just that Trump supported Pence being hanged. So like so many other conservatives, once it effects them then it's time to do something about it.
If I was making it sound like I thought he had clean hands, that wasn't the intent. I do not.
Absolutely. I'm sure that was what woke him up. But now that he's realized what Trump is and that it can impact him personally (which he is surely not the only one, a lot of these people professing absolute admiration for Dear Leader are a lot smarter than Pence about it), what does it gain him to make this tweet? Why are other people in similar positions to Pence not doing the same?
Aw man, the virus got him, too.
I think he had an existenrial crisis after nearly getting lynched by the mob of the person whom he serves, and realized he was in a cult.
Not a good person, but a smart person, smart enough to realize the cult has gone too far.
Not a smart person either.
He is not a genuinely good person. He wants a Christian Taliban theocracy, full of hate and evil.
Yeah, maybe I should have phrased it as "had the potential to be a good person." Something like that. Even if my farfetched remote psychoanalysis is correct, I don't think purportedly-good intentions are an excuse.