Mike Pence Is An Extreme Religious Zealot Who Could Control America

"Morning Joe" hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough are really quite taken with Mike Pence’s calm, cool, constantly lying debate performance. They may or may not realize what an extreme rightwing religious fundamentalist zealot he is, or how much control Trump would give him (Trump would make him do all the work while he focuses on making America great again.) Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"But the next vice president might. If Trump wins, Pence might end up running the show. And at least as far as Silicon Valley is concerned, that could be a big problem...

The same can’t be said for Pence, and that’s not just baseless speculation. When Trump was courting Governor John Kasich, it was clear the purported billionaire wasn’t interested in a VP who would remain in the shadows. One Kasich advisor told The New York Times that Donald Trump Jr. said his father’s pick would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy, leaving people wondering just what a President Trump would do besides issue tweetstorms. (Trump Jr. has since denied this, and the Trump campaign didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for comment for this story.)

For his part, Pence has remained deferential to his less politically experienced ticket-mate. He’s modest where Trump is, to use his own term, “braggadocious.” And unlike Trump, Pence is actually preparing for his debate.

“I’m kind of the B-list Republican celebrity,” Pence told supporters in Ohio last Wednesday. “I’m not the main event.”

But Pence’s self-deprecation may mask the promise of real power...

Pence is perhaps best known for passing the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana, which would have allowed businesses to deny service to people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Tech leaders like Apple’s Tim Cook and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff were among the high profile business leaders who spoke out against the law. Benioff even said that Salesforce would suspend all business that required employees or customers to travel to Indiana if the law stood. (Pence signed a subsequent bill that asserted businesses could not use the act as cover to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity.)”*

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