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The Vice President Says He Didn’t Wear a Mask So That He Could Look People in the Eye
Mike Pence, the White House point man on the greatest public-health crisis in a century, admits he doesn’t know the difference between a mask and a blindfold.
Μock toughness is this administration*’s greatest bluff, because it happens to be this president*’s greatest bluff.
- Charles P. Pierce
- Esquire
The president* who got famous “firing” celebrities on a television show generally leaves the actual task to underlings, because face-to-face confrontations make him nervous.
Anything that scares him—like, say, a worldwide pandemic that now can fairly be said to center in the United States—is…