DONALD TRUMP CHOOSES MIKE PENCE FOR VP, UNDERMINING EVERYTHING UNIQUE ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN

Back in 2014, Matt Yglesias predicted that Mike Pence would be the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nominee. When I first heard the pitch, I was dismissive. But Matt’s case was convincing. Pence, he argued, was "generic Republican" come to life. He was like every other Republican, but a bit more so, and a bit better liked.



In the House, he led the conservative Republican Study Committee and then was elected to GOP leadership. As governor of Indiana, his fellow Republican governors named him to the Executive Committee of the Republican Governors Association. As Politico’s Mike Allen wrote, Pence could "bridge the establishment/business and evangelical/tea party wings of the GOP."


So that was the case for Pence:

He was a generic, predictable conservative who was broadly liked by his colleagues and by the party’s major interest groups. And that was what Republicans would want, right? Wrong.

 Donald Trump is neither generic nor particularly Republican, and his whole campaign was built on the idea that even Republicans didn’t want another generic Republican.

 So he made his eccentricities, his heterodoxies, and his independence from the party’s interest groups and leading politicians a selling point. Trumpism was something distinct from Republicanism: a potent form of white nationalism mixed with a bit of economic populism, a loathing of the Washington establishment, and a charismatic celebrity.

 But Trumpism is losing to Republicanism. In choosing Pence, Trump is selecting a vice president who undermines everything that was distinct about his campaign.
 


Correspondent: Allen Pablo

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