And social liberal policies create mayhem, mental illness, increased drug use, violence and crime, and thus require more gov. money. That’s partially why the libertarian party platfrom is unworkable bunkum. Low taxes (or none), right to bear arms, every vice imaginable legal, all drugs legal including bath salts and anything else imaginable, open borders (”free flow of goods and people”) totally. What could possible go wrong?
The Pence story is as you say part of a cloak and dagger game. I also suspect that Sessions and Barr will be revealed as Patriots.
God give us the strength to see this through.