Trump ran as a conservative in 2016 and governed as one with Mr. Trump’s demand that he overturn the results of the presidential election on Jan. Pence finally broke with him by refusing Mr. Pence served throughout the 2016 campaign and all four years of the Trump presidency. Trump’s vice president as well as his traveling booster, a role Mr. He did not include on his list the invasion of Iraq - which, unlike most Republicans, he still defends to this day.īut he glossed over his own role in promoting Trumpism as Mr.
He listed income inequality caused by globalization and increased automation, the opioid epidemic and the cultural demonization of conservatives. Pence said he understood the frustrations that had led to populist movements both on the left and the right. DeSantis’s efforts to strip Disney of its special tax status. Ron DeSantis of Florida for using state power to punish corporations for taking political stands he disagreed with - a reference to Mr. Pence, in his speech, also called out Gov. The conservative movement and the Republican Party have changed for the better, and nobody wants it to go back to the way it was before.” Pence’s speech, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said in a statement, “President Trump’s victory in 2016 exposed the massive divide between voters around the country and the establishment Beltway insiders who made terrible trade deals, allowed our southern border to become overrun and never missed an opportunity to play world cop. “Donald Trump, along with his imitators,” he said, “often sound like an echo of the progressive they would replace in the White House.” He said that progressivism and Republican populism were “fellow travelers on the same road to ruin.” Trump’s populist movement to a long line of progressive populists, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Huey Long, the former governor of Louisiana. He said populists trafficked in “personal grievances and performative outrage.” And he said they would “abandon American leadership on the world stage,” erode constitutional norms, jettison fiscal responsibility and wield the power of the government to punish their enemies. Pence defined Republican populism as a trading away of time-honored principles for raw political power. That is because the fundamental divide between these two factions is unbridgeable.” will be “the party of conservatism or will we follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles? The future of this movement and this party belongs to one or the other - not both. “I believe that choice will determine both the fate of our party and the course of our nation for years to come.” Pence said that “we have come to a Republican time for choosing.” The line echoed his hero Ronald Reagan’s 1964 televised address, “ A Time for Choosing,” in which the former Hollywood actor framed that year’s presidential election as a choice between individual freedom and governmental oppression.
In his plea to Republicans to abandon populism and embrace conservatism, Mr. “And the fate of American freedom would be in doubt.” Pence said at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. “Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party as we have long known it will cease to exist,” Mr. But his speech on Wednesday went further than he has gone before, casting Mr. Trump, has been warning about the dangers of populism for nearly a year. presidential primary race and lags far behind the front-runner Mr. Pence, who is polling in the single digits in the G.O.P. Former Vice President Mike Pence devoted an entire speech on Wednesday to what he called a “fundamental” and “unbridgeable” divide within the Republican Party - the split between Reaganite conservatives like himself and propagators of populism like former President Donald J.
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