<p>There has been no shortage of talk recently about taking action to remove President Donald Trump from office, with Trump&#8217;s Charlottesville response proving to be a breaking point for many Republicans who had previously supported him.</p> 
<p>However, journalist Joan Walsh cautioned Americans to take a long, hard look at Trump&#8217;s would-be successor Mike Pence before we get excited about Pence being behind the Resolute desk in place of Trump.</p> 
<p>Wrote Walsh in an <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/why-mike-pence-is-worse-than-donald-trump/" type="external">article</a> bluntly titled &#8220;Why Mike Pence is Worse than Donald Trump&#8221; in The Nation, &#8220;You probably have these debates with your friends, too: Do we want Donald Trump to resign, or be impeached, which would leave us with Vice President Mike Pence in charge?&#8230;Would the low-charisma Pence, who looks like a B-movie producer&#8217;s idea of a president, be easier to defeat, especially given the GOP fratricide that would commence with Trump&#8217;s departure, however it came about?&#8221; She continued, &#8220;I try never to care about the political implications of whether Trump should stay or go. He should go, because he&#8217;s a racist authoritarian who got help from a foreign adversary to become president. He should go, because he&#8217;s more likely to stumble into war than Pence is. But I never let that obscure the truth, either: Pence is a far worse person, because of his creepy Handmaid&#8217;s Tale patriarchal approach to women&#8217;s equality. But also because he usually knows he&#8217;s lying about Trump, and their administration&#8217;s agenda, and he lies anyway.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Walsh then brought up disturbing comments the vice president made this past week during an appearance on the Today show. Said Pence, protesting the removal of Confederate monuments, &#8220;When I walked, back in 2010, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with John Lewis, arm in arm, and we remembered Bloody Sunday, and the extraordinary progress of the civil rights movement, I can&#8217;t help but think that rather than pulling down monuments, as some are wont to do, rather than tearing down monuments that have graced our cities all across this country for years, we ought to be building more monuments.&#8221;Commented Joan about Pence, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he gives a damn about the folks who protest these shameful statues. What was most galling about Pence&#8217;s comment, though, was that he used his bond with Lewis to clean up Trump&#8217;s despicable equation of Nazis and white supremacists with their opponents, who are the modern-day incarnation of John Lewis.&#8221; Do you think she is correct about Pence?</p>
“Nation” Writer Claims Pence Is “Far Worse” Than Trump