Not Pence

Not Pence for President

   This is a note about a subject that could take up pages. That’s what it did in the New Yorker of  October 23. Jane Mayer, a long-time writer for the magazine, wrote a substantial article on Vice President Pence, putting each stage of his career into a broader context.  Read it by all means, even if your time or patience requires you to skim. Here I want to express my own surprising conclusion:

   Don’t agitate for Trump’s impeachment, but hope that he will serve out his term.

   Have I become enamored of our President? Certainly not. But, alas, I have learned what it means to support the lesser of two evils—not an easy lesson to digest.

   What Trump will do next is mostly unpredictable. What Pence would do in his place is here revealed: just about surely the wrong thing—from the perspective of liberals like me.

   I’ll take wackiness and uncertainty before certain wrongheadedness. Half a cheer for Trump—at most.