His group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Donald Trump’s top Cabinet picks.

His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

  • frezik
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    6 hours ago

    Democrats are failing at that, too.

    Political parties of any stripe can only slow the spread of fascism, at best. Fascism found a unique vulnerability in American electoral politics, but there are plenty of right wing authoritarian parties popping up in Europe, too. Including AfD in Germany, which should theoretically be the country most inoculated against this sort of thing.

    Ground up organizing of the working class is what saves us. Political parties were only ever going to be a holding action, and nothing more.