{"id":2023589,"date":"2023-09-06T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-takes-two-by-four-to-trumps-populism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:58:17","slug":"pence-takes-two-by-four-to-trumps-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-takes-two-by-four-to-trumps-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence counters Trump&#8217;s populism with force."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpence-takes-two-by-four-to-trumps-populism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> says populism and progressivism\u2063 are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assanges-fiance-if-i-could-speak-to-the-president-i-would-tell-him-julians-liberty-and-the-liberty-of-the-united-states-hang-together\/\" title=\"Assange\u2019s Fianc\u00e9: \u2018If I Could Speak to the President, I Would Tell Him Julian\u2019s Liberty and the Liberty of the United States Hang Together\u2019\">twin evils<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      \u200d(Photo \u200bby Alex Wong\/Getty \u2064Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Chris Christie, watch out: \u200cMike Pence may \u2064be giving the former New\u200b Jersey governor a run \u2063for his money as the most \u2063anti-Trump candidate in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s former vice president on Wednesday launched a broadside against Trump\u2014not for \u2063the personal foibles\u200c that have been on \u2063public display since he strode down the golden escalator \u200din 2015, but for embracing a populist ideology that, according to Pence, is as nefarious an influence as \u2064progressivism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump, along \u2062with \u200bhis populist followers and\u200c imitators\u2014some of whom are also seeking the Republican presidential nomination\u2014often sound like an echo of the \u2063progressive they would replace\u2064 in the White House,&#8221; Pence told a crowd at St. Anselm College on\u200b Wednesday.\u2064 Progressivism and populism, he said, &#8220;are fellow travelers on the same road to ruin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pence drew \u2062a through line\u200d between populism and progressivism, \u200cname-checking the boy entrepreneur\u2064 Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s historic support for \u200can inheritance tax, Trump&#8217;s refusal \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-takes-two-by-four-to-trumps-populism\/\" title=\"Pence counters Trump's populism with force.\">cut entitlement \u2063spending<\/a>, and Florida governor\u2063 Ron DeSantis&#8217;s decision to\u2062 take \u2063on Disney\u2014or, as Pence put it, to use &#8220;the power of the\u2062 state to punish corporations for taking a political stand he\u200d disagreed with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That message\u200d makes Pence the first GOP \u2062candidate to \u2064take Trump on in \u200bexplicitly ideological terms. While others\u2014some \u200centhusiastically, \u200dothers grudgingly\u2014indicated that Trump may not be morally fit for office, Pence is the only one so far to take a two-by-four to the populism\u200c that \u2062Trump brought to\u2064 the\u200c White\u2064 House.<\/p>\n<h3>There are just two\u200c problems.<\/h3>\n<p>First, Pence&#8217;s poll numbers are weak, to\u2063 put it gently. But his\u200c team believes taking\u200b a righteous stand\u2014as\u2064 he did on Jan. 6, 2021\u2014is, well, righteous, even if\u200b it isn&#8217;t popular with Republican primary \u2063voters. They also say\u2063 Iowa\u2014where Pence\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2024\/president\/ia\/2024_iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-8164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stands at 3.8 percent<\/a> in the RealClearPolitics average\u2014is\u2064 more fluid that meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p>The other \u2062is that Pence\u2063 is running \u2064on the Trump-Pence record, and critics point \u200bto the fact that Pence stood loyally alongside Trump as the former president helped transform the \u2063Republican Party from\u200b a vessel of conservatism \u2062into\u2063 a tribune of\u2063 the people. Indeed, Pence said Wednesday\u2064 is proud\u2062 of &#8220;the accomplishments of \u200dthe Trump-Pence presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can he \u200dhave\u2062 it \u200dboth ways? Team Pence says it was Pence&#8217;s influence in \u200bthe White House that \u200dhelped Trump stay the\u2064 course, through constant discourse, private conversations, \u2063and\u2063 weekly lunches. That may\u200c be, but it is nonetheless \u200ca difficult case to \u2062make.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year \u200bago, Pence delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/conservatism\/event\/the-freedom-agenda-americas-future-featuring-the-honorable-mike-pence-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remarks at\u2062 the Heritage Foundation<\/a> \u200dand warned against the \u200b&#8221;siren\u200b song of unprincipled populism\u200c that is \u200dunmoored from our oldest traditions and \u2064most cherished values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then, he said that the \u2064traditional conservatism of the Reagan era,\u2063 of which he is\u200c an embodiment, could\u2062 find accommodation with\u200c the\u2063 GOP&#8217;s rising populist\u2063 tide, telling\u2064 the crowd,\u200b &#8220;I\u2064 truly do believe that we\u200c don&#8217;t have to choose one at the expense \u2064of another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No longer. Now, Pence \u2064says, \u2063&#8221;The \u200dfundamental divide between these \u200btwo\u2063 factions is unbridgeable. \u2026 The \u200bfuture of this movement, of this great party,\u2062 belongs to one or the \u200bother\u2014not both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pence \u2062took the title for his speech from Ronald Reagan&#8217;s nationally televised 1964 address on behalf of\u2063 Barry Goldwater&#8217;s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a>: \u2064&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/reagans\/ronald-reagan\/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Time for Choosing.<\/a>&#8221; Goldwater lost in a landslide, but Reagan&#8217;s speech was a resounding success. It would \u200btake another 16 years for Reagan and his conservatives to win the\u2062 battle\u200b of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Pence\u2062 and\u2063 his allies certainly know that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie, warning that populism and progressivism are both detrimental. Pence&#8217;s criticism positions him as a strong contender against Christie in the Republican primary, showcasing his anti-Trump stance. This move comes after Pence&#8217;s tenure as Donald Trump&#8217;s vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":2023590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}