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Pence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’ as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign
Associated Press ^ | September 6, 2023 | Jill Colvin and Robert F. Bukaty

Posted on 09/06/2023 1:41:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Vice President Mike Pence cast the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and called on fellow Republicans to reject the “siren song of populism” championed by former President Donald Trump and his followers.

“Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party we’ve long known will cease to exist and the fate of American freedom would be in doubt,” Pence said in what his campaign plugged as a major speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Wednesday afternoon. […]

Pence linked the right’s populism — promoting a hard focus on ordinary people’s complaints about big government and so-called elites — to progressivism on the left as “fellow travelers on the same road to ruin.” […]

“When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to govern as a conservative. And together we did. But it’s important for Republicans to know that he and his imitators on this Republican primary make no such promise today,” Pence said. “The truth is Donald Trump, along with his imitators, often sound like an echo of the progressives they seek to replace.” …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: barfalert; pence; populism; tds
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To: Olog-hai
Trump-IMG-2998-1
41 posted on 09/06/2023 4:00:42 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Olog-hai

Pence is not too bright.


42 posted on 09/06/2023 4:21:34 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( What did Obama know, and when did he know it? Did Obama know Biden was taking bribes?)
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To: Olog-hai

This colossal phony. Sit down and shut up.


43 posted on 09/06/2023 4:25:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: TigersEye
"Does that amendment legally supersede Article II, Section I, paragraph 3?"

You tell me. With this Bill signed into law by Biden, they've declared that the V.P.'s part in certifying Presidential electors is basically ceremonial, with no power to "determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate or resolve disputes over the proper list of electors, the validity of electors, or the votes of electors."

Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022

44 posted on 09/06/2023 4:52:09 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I’ll say it’s unconstitutional. Wouldn’t be the first time Congress ever passed unconstitutional law.


45 posted on 09/06/2023 5:03:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: HombreSecreto

Yes!!! What was in that envelope?


46 posted on 09/06/2023 5:04:19 PM PDT by navymom1
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To: Olog-hai
"I’ll say it’s unconstitutional. Wouldn’t be the first time Congress ever passed unconstitutional law."

I haven't yet heard that anyone is challenging this law in Federal Court. Forget about Republicans doing anything about it. Too many traitors in the Senate who voted for it.

47 posted on 09/06/2023 5:11:01 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey Mikey, STFU


48 posted on 09/06/2023 5:16:03 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: Olog-hai

“Former Vice President Mike Pence cast the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and his party...”

I don’t give a damn about the future of conservatism and certainly not about the Republican party.

The nation is being destroyed and a disembodied political ideology is not going to save us. It was not political ideology that saved us in World War II.

And Pence is certainly NOT the leader who will save us. A POS leader has never been known to save anyone.

The deep state knows who it is that can defeat them. And it ain’t Mike Pence, for crying out loud.


49 posted on 09/06/2023 5:26:46 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

From the Jeb! Bushie wing of the GOPe.


50 posted on 09/06/2023 6:00:12 PM PDT by Skybird
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To: Olog-hai
“Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party we’ve long known will cease to exist"

Your proposal is acceptable.

51 posted on 09/06/2023 6:12:18 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Olog-hai

No one like you, Michael. Save your breath.


52 posted on 09/06/2023 6:14:51 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Olog-hai

Do you mean the populists who finance and send our children to fight your endless wars to protect raw materials and markets of multi-national elites? But Trump isn’t a populist. His economic policies utilize American economic power over military force while maintaining a strong American military and was judicious in it’s use. His policies were nationalist as the Constitution intended.


53 posted on 09/06/2023 7:02:50 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: mass55th
I don't know for sure but I believe the Constitutional requirements for amending the Constitution according to Article V were not met in any way.

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.


54 posted on 09/06/2023 7:47:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Olog-hai

If this douche is against “populism” why did he run with Trump in 2016 ?


55 posted on 09/06/2023 8:49:36 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: mass55th

Red herring. Too many challenges to unconstitutional law are thrown out of federal courts on the equally-unconstitutional notion of the plaintiffs not having “standing”.


56 posted on 09/07/2023 12:09:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Reverend Wright

Never mind 2020.


57 posted on 09/07/2023 12:09:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

“Pence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’”

AGAIN???

populism is nothing more and nothing less than power to the people, AND it’s the opposite of, and the anathema of, the fascist deep state uniparty ...

anyone who “rails” against populism is signaling to the world that they’re a dyed in the wool uniparty fascist deep stater ...

[BTW, i don’t think Pence would come up on his own with the idea of railing against populism: this is something is handlers have ordered him to do ... somehow or other, his handlers think that trying to label Trump a populist would hurt Trump ... whereas, anyone paying attention already KNOWS Trump is a populist and LOVES it!]


58 posted on 09/07/2023 8:08:41 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman

‘Populism’ is one of those terms people use like ‘Fascism’. Generally it means “anything I don’t agree with.”


59 posted on 09/07/2023 8:09:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai
"Red herring. Too many challenges to unconstitutional law are thrown out of federal courts on the equally-unconstitutional notion of the plaintiffs not having “standing”."

It's no longer a government "of the people, by the people, for the people, for the people." That government, and the people's "standing," has perished.

60 posted on 09/07/2023 9:05:24 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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