Mike Pence dissented once in four years. Nobody talks about the Pence years.
David Axelrod: “Mike Pence dissented once in four years. Nobody talks about the Pence years.”
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Axelrod reflects on Mike Pence's limited dissent during his vice presidency.
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I think the Democratic party has become too much of a cosmopolitan, college educated party. It still advocates for working people, but it doesn't really communicate with them very well.
Donald Trump doesn't believe in rules and laws and norms or institutions. He doesn't believe them domestically. He doesn't believe in them internationally and he has defied them to get to this point and back to the presidency.
This is another norm that's just going by the wayside in the era of Trump. But, I don't think it has particular meaning.





