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1: The Sycophant
1. For Pence’s explanation of his identity, see “Mike Pence: I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican—in that order,” Week, July 20, 2016. For Obama quote, see his remarks on Donald Trump’s election, Washington Post, November 9, 2016.
2. Pence remarks from his speech at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in 2010.
3. For Pence and Trump, see McKay Coppins, “God’s Plan for Mike Pence,” The Atlantic, January 2018, www
4. For Pence’s response to Mueller’s appointment see Rebecca Ruiz, “Pence Hires Criminal Defense Lawyer to Aid Him in Investigations,” The New York Times, June 15, 2017.
5. For cabinet members’ remarks, see White House, “Remarks by President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Members of the Cabinet,” December 20, 2017, www
6. Matt Lewis, “My Theory on Why Mike Pence Kisses Donald Trump’s, Uh, Ring So Fulsomely,” Daily Beast, December 12, 2017, www
7. For Pence and the culture war, see Meghan O’Gieblyn, “Exiled: Mike Pence and the Evangelical Fantasy of Persecution,” Harper’s, May 2018, and Damian Sharkov, “Steve Bannon Wanted Culture War to Change U.S. Politics, Says Whistleblower,” Newsweek, May 17, 2018.
8. For Calvinism, see Michael Massing, Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 2018), i-xi.
9. For American Christians as equivalent of ancient Jews, see O’Gieblyn, “Exiled.”
10. Coppins, “God’s Plan.”
11. For Pruitt record, see Alexander C. Kaufman, “Scott Pruitt Twice Introduced Anti-Abortion Bills Giving Men ‘Property Rights’ Over Fetuses,” Huffington Post, May 24, 2018, www
12. Dana Milbank, “This Week Proved God Exists, and He Has a Wicked Sense of Humor,” Washington Post, May 4, 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-says-president-trump-doesnt-have-a-prayer/2018/05/04/013eafc6-4fd4-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.ab84b6b8712e.
13. For DeVos quote, see Valerie Strauss, “She’s a Billionaire Who Said Schools Need Guns to Fight Bears. Here’s What You May Not Know About Betsy DeVos,” Washington Post, February 7, 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/02/07/shes-a-billionaire-who-said-schools-need-guns-to-fight-bears-heres-what-you-may-not-know-about-betsy-devos/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.33c4729881da.
14. For Koch’s organizations, see Jane Mayer, Dark Money (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 56.
15. For training of politicians and their talents, see Jonathan Rausch and Raymond LaRaja, “Re-Engineering Politicians,” Brookings Institution, December 7, 2017, www
16. For Pence ideology, see Michael Barbaro and Monica Davey, “Mike Pence: A Conservative Proudly Out of Sync With His Times,” New York Times, July 15, 2016, www
17. For Christian supremacy, see Jeremy Scahill, “Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History,” Intercept, November 15, 2016, https://
18. For status threat, see Diana Mutz, “Status Threat, Not Economic Hardship, Explains the 2016 Presidential Vote,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 2018), https://
19. For Pence and Arpaio, see Sarah Quinlan, “Vice President Pence Calling Joe Arpaio a ‘Tireless Champion’ of ‘Rule of Law’ Ignores Arpaio’s Record,” RedState, May 1, 2018, www