Don't You Dare Lionize Mike Pence January 14 2021 8:35 PM EST Let’s say that during both World Wars, respective Vice Presidents Thomas Marshall and Henry Wallace told their bosses that they were too afraid to fight? Or, during the forming of our republic, that Vice President John Adams told George Washington he was too scared to move forward? How about if during the Civil War, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin pleaded with Abe Lincoln to give up the attempt at solidarity, and fly the confederate flag rather than the stars and stripes? Essentially that’s what Vice President Mike Pence has been doing in the face of a déjà vu of confederate flags rippling in the U.S. Capitol — scared, hiding, complicit, and giving up. While the "rebel" flag flew in the face of democracy last week, and the entire Congress and their staffs hid, Pence cowardly and metaphorically stayed in his bunker. He was too afraid to confront the racist-in-chief and his mob that led to at least five deaths at the Capitol. These deranged individuals have been haranguing members of Congress in airports and the vice president through emails and phone calls, threatening all of them with their lives and more attempts at insurrection. And in turn, they have all, chiefly among them Pence, showed they are too afraid to stand up for democracy.