Daniel Hannan is a British writer, journalist, and former politician. He is the founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 to 2020. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
In normal times, former Vice President Mike Pence would have been considered an obvious Republican presidential candidate. The mere fact of having been a successful vice president — and, prior to that, the governor who delivered the largest tax cut in Indiana’s history — would have been enough to ensure he was at least given a decent hearing.
But the opposite is true. Pence is being punished, not for sticking to Trump, but for sticking to the Constitution. The Hoosier’s sense of loyalty led him to defend acts of meanness, cruelty, and stupidity from his president, but he was not prepared, with a baying mob in the Capitol, to betray American democracy.
Perfectly put. Except that that “growing faction” has, like a cuckoo, squeezed every other chick from the nest. The latest poll shows Trump at 55%, with Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at 8% each, Vivek Ramaswamy at 7%, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 3%. It’s over, and Republican voters know it. Seventy-six percent of them want to end the debates and get on with the presidential election.
It is true that, for all his personal flaws, Trump did achieve some things in his first term. But it is striking how many of these achievements were due, not to some personal magic of his, but to the mainstream Republicans against whom he railed — Pence among them. It was the vice president who immersed himself in the details of the judicial nominations. It was the vice president who, when Trump wobbled on whether to move the embassy to Jerusalem, convinced him to overrule the State Department.
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