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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017

      1. So the big hot take on the left is "Why push for impeachment? President Pence would be worse!" Can I explain why this is nonsense?

      171 replies 969 retweets 2,276 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Trump & Pence bad but different. Trump is chaotic evil, Pence is lawful evil. Trump is the Joker, Pence the Grand Inquisitor.

      54 replies 243 retweets 798 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      3. Worst case scenario under Pence is The Handmaid's Tale (theocratic totalitarianism). With Trump it's Mad Max (nuclear apocalypse).

      159 replies 428 retweets 1,084 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. America can recover from a theocracy (in fact it already has: early Puritan settlements). Less easy to recover from a nuclear holocaust

      35 replies 148 retweets 721 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. Leaving aside worst case scenarios, the simple fact is that a President Pence would take command of torn, wounded GOP.

      12 replies 59 retweets 410 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      6. If Trump quits or is impeached, the GOP will be ripped apart. Trump has a significant personality cult of 40% of party.

      19 replies 91 retweets 529 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      7. Moreover, if Trump leaves office, he's not going to disappear. He'll still be around (Trump TV!), still tweeting. And he'll target Pence.

      22 replies 87 retweets 568 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      8. Trump won by combining tradition GOP partisans with influx of more white working class. Trump leaving would blow that coalition apart.

      13 replies 51 retweets 376 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      9. Trump is already having trouble governing because of deep divisions in GOP between Tea Party house members & conventional GOP.

      4 replies 51 retweets 314 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      10. Pence would take over the already factionalized GOP and it would have even more divisions (because of angry Trumpists.

      14 replies 49 retweets 326 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017

      11. Fears that Pence will appoint sexist & homophobic bigots have to deal with fact Trump already is doing that.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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          12. Also as a practical matter Pence is implicated in all the things that could bring Trump down. Wouldn't have a clean slate.

          8 replies 72 retweets 461 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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          13. Unlike Gerald Ford, President Pence couldn't say "our nightmare is over." Pence would be dogged by same investigations & scandal.

          13 replies 112 retweets 494 likes
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        1. heirstrip1‏ @EurasiaWins 18 May 2017
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          And Pence will be ineffective salesman for theocratic BS

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        1. James Love‏Verified account @jamie_love 18 May 2017
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          And, at some point, there have to be consequences of actions, and leaving Trump in office is a statement too.

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        1. [unintelligible screaming]‏ @hazelscreams 18 May 2017
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          That's exactly what I've felt. Pence is morally just as repulsive as Trump, but Pence's ideology is already fundamental to the admin

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        1. Mary J. Berry‏ @56jaytee 18 May 2017
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          Trump pence and whole WH transition team everyone going down 72 indictments Rico FARA

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