The Chilling Normalcy of Mike Pence’s Debate Performance

Everything is not fine. But to hear it from the vice president, it’s all going according to plan.

Sarah Stankorb
GEN
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6 min readOct 8, 2020

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Since President Donald Trump’s diagnosis with Covid-19, decency compelled most people to wish him well despite whatever schadenfreude they might have secretly harbored. Boaters for Trump may have sunk, but…

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Sarah Stankorb
GEN
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Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com