re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter

The argument that others have made is that Pence doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, though his policies would probably be worse. Indeed, Trump’s domestic policies are standard Republican policies. Pence would not personally be a dictator or enrich himself at the public expense (probably) but his court appointments would in effect continue supporting new Jim Crow laws that would keep Republicans in office for the indefinite future. The question is whether the suburban Republican women would return to the Republican party if the face of the party is a boring theocrat like Pence instead of a raving misogynist and racist like Trump.

He would certainly nail down the Fundamentalist “family values” (as in homophobic, patriarchal and anti-abortion/contraception) constituency, but the truly deplorable sick fucks who make up the hard-core of the GOP core supporters would not be as moved to vote for him.