THE RETURN OF MIKE PENCE: Former Vice President @Mike_Pence is speaking up again. After @realDonaldTrump spent years urging conservatives to despise Pence for certifying @JoeBiden’s 2020 election victory—after every legal avenue had been exhausted—Pence is now reminding Americans of a simple truth Trump has tried to obscure: tariffs are paid by the American people.
Trump’s trade war devastated America’s farmers with chaotic, poorly designed tariffs that never forced foreign governments to pay a dime. And now, with prices rising and the agricultural sector strained, Trump is proposing a $12 billion bailout for farmers. The claim? That the money will not come from taxpayers, but from tariff revenue—as if tariffs are magically funded by China, India, Japan, Cameroon, Nigeria, or South Africa. It is a lie. Tariffs are a tax on Americans, and Pence said what every economist across the political spectrum already knows.
But here is the real context of this moment:
We live in an era of praise-singing, where influencers chase likes and shares by parroting whatever keeps them in the good graces of their audience. Even if tariffs hurt American families, even if they raise costs for every small business, even if they risk destroying the Republican Party in the midterms, very few are willing to say so. Honesty has been replaced with performance. Courage replaced with clout-chasing.
And in that environment, a serious question emerges:
Why should conservatives hate Mike Pence?
He is not a liberal. He is not a Democrat. He is a lifelong conservative Republican who believes in family, faith, and the Constitution. So why should anyone despise him for certifying an election after every legal challenge had failed? Why should one man’s personal anger dictate the emotions of millions?
And more importantly: What does it say about us if we accept that?
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