TBF lots of people can get "servile, bootlicking backstabber" confused with "loyalist" right up until the 3rd word kicks in. Pence held off for years, he's got serious long game.
All he had to do was sit quietly, collect a salary, and speak at token events. He was never going to have a political career post Trump.
Here was his plan: “if Trump succeeds despite all the deepstate meddling, you ride his coattails. If everything goes according to plan and the deepstate succeeds, you distance and denounce him at the last minute. Either way, you have a comfy consulting job waiting for you in 4-8 years.”
Pence.
Literally nobody that has been paying attention thought mike pence was a trump loyalist. That was a narrative spun by neocon news sites.
TBF lots of people can get "servile, bootlicking backstabber" confused with "loyalist" right up until the 3rd word kicks in. Pence held off for years, he's got serious long game.
All he had to do was sit quietly, collect a salary, and speak at token events. He was never going to have a political career post Trump.
Here was his plan: “if Trump succeeds despite all the deepstate meddling, you ride his coattails. If everything goes according to plan and the deepstate succeeds, you distance and denounce him at the last minute. Either way, you have a comfy consulting job waiting for you in 4-8 years.”