Once again, my former boss, Mike Pence, is making headlines. He’s back in the news with an op-ed in the Washington Post that veers into breathtaking whataboutism. Pence’s argument equates the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol with Senate Democrats’ consideration of changing Senate rules to pass their voting rights reform package, the Freedom to Vote Act.
If that wasn’t outlandish enough, he goes on to criticize the bill — which was crafted with heavy involvement from moderate Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin — as an effort that “would offend the Founders’ intention that states conduct elections just as much as what some of our most ardent supporters would have had me do one year ago.” It seems Pence decided that the gallows set up outside the Capitol and the Trump supporters shouting “Hang Mike Pence” are basically equivalent to a piece of voting rights legislation.
Read the rest of Olivia Troye’s piece at New York Daily News
