BEYOND COVID-19~ MIKE PENCE SYNDROME `

 

It's doubtful former Vice President Mike Pence thinks of himself as a tragic figure.  One could guess he was told as a boy to "chin up" and not complain.

He's certainly stoic and likely devout, but one can only have their ego crushed, subordinated and mocked so many times before it becomes diminished.

A man who was taught that "whoever looks at a woman so as to have a lust for her has already committed adultery in his heart" has to die a little inside when the man he's subordinated himself to says "grab them by the pussy."

I've been around men who were smooth with women and "grab them by the pussy" is not a phrase they would ever use.  Those are words only someone awkward with the opposite sex, someone who views them as a piece of meat would employ.

But Pence had to absorb that blow to his religious psyche, then watch the would-be pussy grabber hoist a Holy Bible in the air as if he was in some way representative of that book, the book Pence claimed as his life guide.

No man, no matter how loyal or stoic, could stand beside Donald Trump for four years like the proverbial, but racially insensitive cigar store Indian, unless he thought it was a good career move that would be rewarded in the end.

Yet, in the end, Trump turned on Pence like he's turned on almost everyone who's ever worked for or with him, blaming Pence for his orderly execution of duty at the Presidential inauguration, saying "you don't have the courage to make a hard decision.

On January 6 bullies incited by Trump chanted "hang Mike Pence," one of them even setting up a noose.

Pence, acting as if none of that actually happened, still conducts himself as a good Trump soldier, even claiming the "media" was responsible for January 6.

Pence, after four years of subservience to a despot, has had every vestige of intestinal fortitude ripped out of him.

Even the Biblical "righteous indignation" is missing.

Just so you know, this story is really not about Mike Pence.