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So Help Me God
by Mike Pence
Objectively, I really didn't like how he structured this. It read like one really, really, REALLY long speech, and while it was, overall, chronological, that wasn't always consistent. There was a lot of backtracking, and a lot of quips that would work for speeches, but not books.
Not objectively, about the first 20% of the book was his belief system, and how he got into politics. I actually had no issues with this bit. But then the rest of the book felt like a deferment of blame and his way of explaining why things weren't his fault.
The logical fallacies he presented were the most frustrating for me. There was a lot of picking and choosing of when to uphold his beliefs - like how Jesus teaches forgiveness, so he forgave what Donald Trump said about women, but that Planned Parenthood is purely a murderous institution, or that all Democrats are unfortunately monsters. Or that the solution to gun violence is not gun control, but training teachers and providing mental health care - even though he's abolished gender studies and counseling, which has a direct correlation to mental health. For him, most of the Constitution leaves a lot of space for interpretation, EXCEPT the right to bear arms. At one point, he said that he couldn't believe the Founding Fathers meant to give him full power over the electoral college, and so that's how he chose to interpret it. But for some reason their ideas about guns wouldn't have changed in the last few hundred years?
I'm glad I read it; it gave me a lot of insight. Overall, I don't think Mike Pence is a bad person or a bad politician. But he's very much playing the political games of those around him, and this book really reads like he's playing those games in the name of God.
Not objectively, about the first 20% of the book was his belief system, and how he got into politics. I actually had no issues with this bit. But then the rest of the book felt like a deferment of blame and his way of explaining why things weren't his fault.
The logical fallacies he presented were the most frustrating for me. There was a lot of picking and choosing of when to uphold his beliefs - like how Jesus teaches forgiveness, so he forgave what Donald Trump said about women, but that Planned Parenthood is purely a murderous institution, or that all Democrats are unfortunately monsters. Or that the solution to gun violence is not gun control, but training teachers and providing mental health care - even though he's abolished gender studies and counseling, which has a direct correlation to mental health. For him, most of the Constitution leaves a lot of space for interpretation, EXCEPT the right to bear arms. At one point, he said that he couldn't believe the Founding Fathers meant to give him full power over the electoral college, and so that's how he chose to interpret it. But for some reason their ideas about guns wouldn't have changed in the last few hundred years?
I'm glad I read it; it gave me a lot of insight. Overall, I don't think Mike Pence is a bad person or a bad politician. But he's very much playing the political games of those around him, and this book really reads like he's playing those games in the name of God.