Remember this headline? It was Mike Pence's — and Indiana's — worst nightmare back in 2015, when then-Governor Pence bungled his way into the headlines via his clumsy and bigoted "Religious Freedom Restoration Act." That nifty piece of hate-screed sent Indiana's economy reeling and made the Hoosier State the laughing stock of the nation.
So of course Benedict Donald picked Pence as his running mate, and of course he tapped Pence to manage the coronavirus pandemic today.
We cats thought Trump would announce that he'd put a 23-year-old premed student in charge. Just check who's running the Office of Presidential Personnel these days.
It's Pence vs. virus instead, but look who we're getting: A guy who, in addition to the disastrous RFRA (which he had to backpedal bigly on), denied his state a responsible needle exchange program, which caused Indiana's AIDS cases to skyrocket. That's what happens when religious zealots run healthcare: They run it into the ground, and people die.
If it occurred to you that Trump has set Pence up to fail so he can dump him from the 2020 ticket in favor of Nikki Haley, you're not alone. We cats think so, too, and we HISS.
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