Trumpās former vice president also called the administrationās āanti-weaponizationā fund ādeeply offensive.ā
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that President Donald Trumpās second administration has ādepartedā from traditional conservative principles.
Pence, who served as Trumpās vice president from 2017 to 2021, told NBC Newsā āMeet the Pressā that the administration is no longer committed to āthe conservative agenda that has defined the Republican Party since the days of Ronald Reagan, and before that an agenda of American leadership, limited government, free market economics, the right to life.ā
Heās banking on, and probably mildly correct, that thereās voters who want to go back to that era and like MTG, want to distance themselves from Trump and his methods but not the power/results. Heāll never get anywhere though. Theyāve sold their souls 3x to support Trump and will again rather than risk splitting conservatism and creating openings for opposition to win.
Trump brand conservatism appeals to everyone from Boomers yearning for a return to the privilege of mid-century America to Gen Zs who think mid-century America was the Golden Age itās said to be and that theyāve been denied. Nobody wants a polite, stick-up-his-ass, Victorian sensibility patriarch that has the personality of wet cardboard.