Kevin Drum may be the best list-maker on the Internet. He just posted this list of people who worked for Donald Trump in high-capacity jobs — meaning they had a lot of contact with the man — but who now oppose (sometimes vehemently) him getting another four years in the Oval Office.
It includes one Vice-President, two Chiefs of Staff, two Secretaries of State, two Secretaries of Defense, one Attorney General, two National Security Advisers, etc. I guess Mike Pence is no surprise. In a recent interview, he said…
As I have watched his candidacy unfold, I have seen him walking away from our commitment to confront the national debt. I've seen him start to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life. And this last week his reversal on getting tough on China and supporting our administration's effort to force a sale of ByteDance TikTok…Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. That is why I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign.
Those are all good reasons from Mr. Pence's viewpoint but I can't help but think there's another good one…something having to do with rope…