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Former Vice President Mike Pence, still running away from the angry MAGA mob Donald Trump tried to sic on him, thinks he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Like a lost dog, Pence followed Trump’s lead and went onto CNN’s sinking ship to have his own kid-gloves-style town hall with host Dana Bash. It went the way you might imagine, with Pence spouting platitudes in his patriarchal style of knowingness—with almost no pushback.
During the standing question and answer section, he was asked to talk about crime. Pence opened by blathering about how he wouldn’t “defund” the police, as the concept has “emboldened” criminals. Since nobody has defunded the police, and in most cases only increased police funding, Pence need not worry. Then, like all conservatives and racists before him, Pence explained that we needed to get even more punishing in our punishments for crimes, and Chicago was the reason we needed to do that.
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