Pence was chosen as an insurance policy. Trump knew that with Pence as VP they'd never actually make a serious attempt at removing him because that would create President Mike Pence. It's why we got a whole lot of bluster and an incredibly feeble impeachment but no serious effort to remove him.
If Trump's VP was someone more amenable to the left he would have been assassinated years ago.
I don't think it's that we didn't want to admit it. It's that we didn't expect Pence be in the position to make or break the decision. Pence was supposed to play the GOP backrole and play nice with MAGA.
I think he knew it and how opportunistic Pence was. He trusted Pence with a lot of regretful new hires. I'm not worried about Trump.
We all knew it and no one wanted to admit it.
For Fuck's sake, Pence was chosen specifically to bring around the old guard establishment Republicans to vote for Trump in 2016.
Pence was chosen as an insurance policy. Trump knew that with Pence as VP they'd never actually make a serious attempt at removing him because that would create President Mike Pence. It's why we got a whole lot of bluster and an incredibly feeble impeachment but no serious effort to remove him.
If Trump's VP was someone more amenable to the left he would have been assassinated years ago.
I don't think it's that we didn't want to admit it. It's that we didn't expect Pence be in the position to make or break the decision. Pence was supposed to play the GOP backrole and play nice with MAGA.