C-SPAN: 'Former Vice President Mike Pence On Populism & The Republican Party'

Source:C-SPAN- Vice President Mike Pence (Republican, Indiana) and 2024 Republican presidential candidate.

"Mike Pence on Populism and the Republican Party During remarks in New Hampshire, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence cautioned GOP voters on veering toward populism, saying it was akin to progressivism." 

From C-SPAN

As my colleague Fred Schneider pointed out on The New Democrat:

"Vice President Pence is not a Ronald Reagan Republican either. Ronald Reagan was always part of the Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Everett Dirksen, classical conservative wing of the Republican Party. The wing of the Republican Party who believes it's the job of government to conserve American's individual rights and freedom, to defend the country, keep taxes, spending, regulations, deficits down. 

The Reagan Conservative wing is not:

"This is what it means to be a real American. And anyone who disagrees with us, is Un-American or immoral. And it's the job of government to enforce our religious values on everyone else." 

If you think about it, Mike Pence when he was in the U.S. House in the 2000s and as Governor of Indiana before he became Vice President in 2017, that's the kind of Republican Pence was. He probably had a 90% approval rating with the right-wing religious populists of the Republican Party, before he turned against Donald Trump in late 2020 and early 2021." 

I think Mike Pence is a good, decent, honest, (at least for a career politician) man who loves his country, wants the best for it, who cares about other people, including people outside of his circles. But he's also a politician, whose running for President of the United States. 

Vice President Pence also knows that the right-wing populist movement that he's speaking out against now, was his movement before he became Vice President in 2017. 

Mr. Pence also knows that for him to have a September blizzard's chance in Los Angeles of winning the 2024 Republican nomination for President, he has to separate himself enough from this movement, (a movement that Donald has had lockdown with him since 2015) and bring Republicans who are outside of this movement, with him, while still maintaining the religious and cultural values of this movement, that he would need for him, if again, there was a snow blizzard is Los Angeles, California, in September and Vice President Pence somehow won the 2024 Republican nomination for President.

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