Vice President Mike Pence responding, apparently without irony, to Trump’s equating white supremacist hate groups and anti-Nazis:  “We’re also praying that in America that we will not allow the few to divide the many. “

If the stakes weren’t so high, and the angry rhetoric of intolerance not turned up to ten by a man who rose to power by playing to the division of the many, that remark would be droll.   The extreme right wing Vice President, a publicly pious Christian, proponent of gay conversion therapy,  funerals for aborted fetuses, voter suppression laws in Indiana, also offered this glittering statement in defense of the president he is patiently waiting to replace, when nature takes its course. 

“The strength of the United States of America is always strongest, as the president has said so eloquently, when we are united around our shared values, and so it will always be.”

Might I squeamishly suggest that “eloquently” is probably not the best word, ironic or comedic effect aside, to describe the utterances of our increasingly peevish Winner-in-Chief.