The Week: Fund the Allies

• Gone are the old antisemitic WASPs who once ran the Ivy League. The new antisemites are much more diverse.

• Mike Pence bowed out of the presidential race. The former vice president was doomed by doing his constitutional duty on January 6, 2021. His rating among Republicans slid after that day until, despite being a rock-ribbed conservative who was smack in the middle of the consensus on the right for almost the entirety of his career, he had become radioactive in his own party. This was perverse, but Pence can take comfort in knowing that his faithfulness to the Constitution will be long remembered and that if he had bowed to Donald Trump’s pressure, the president’s campaign to overturn the election results would have become a genuine constitutional crisis. Having concluded that his presidential campaign couldn’t win, Pence got out rather than take any of the vote share from other non-Trump alternatives. Several remaining candidates should prayerfully consider his example.

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• Gone are the old antisemitic WASPs who once ran the Ivy League. The new antisemites are much more diverse.

• Mike Pence bowed out of the presidential race. The former vice president was doomed by doing his constitutional duty on January 6, 2021. His rating among Republicans slid after that day until, despite being a rock-ribbed conservative who was smack in the middle of the consensus on the right for almost the entirety of his career, he had become radioactive in his own party. This was perverse, but Pence can take comfort in knowing that his faithfulness to the Constitution will be long remembered and that if he had bowed to Donald Trump’s pressure, the president’s campaign to overturn the election results would have become a genuine constitutional crisis. Having concluded that his presidential campaign couldn’t win, Pence got out rather than take any of the vote share from other non-Trump alternatives. Several remaining candidates should prayerfully consider his example.