Six years ago, Mike Pence made a set of fairly straightforward calculations. Seeing as he was going nowhere fast as Indiana’s governor, accepting Donald Trump’s offer to be his running mate was a low-risk, high-reward proposition: After all, Pence’s main responsibility was to class up the place by appealing to religious conservatives who might have been put off by Trump’s crassness and obvious disinterest in Christianity. (It turns out they were fine with both, but that wasn’t obvious at the... Read this story
