Imagine the reaction if Vice President Kamala Harris declared that, having worked with him up close, she could no longer back President Joe Biden. It would almost certainly mean the end of his campaign. Yet when former Vice President Mike Pence says the same thing about former President Donald Trump, it makes no difference. No difference, that is, to Trump. For Pence himself, it means a new outburst of deranged abuse from MAGA loudmouths.

“Pence’s explicit and vocal refusal to endorse his old boss is a sign of his moral turpitude,” declares Josiah Lippincott in the Trumpster house journal American Greatness. Never mind that the courteous Indianan refused to endorse Biden. The fact of not falling in behind the Supreme Leader means, according to AG, that he supports “transgender surgery for minors, open borders, endless foreign wars, and BLM terrorism in American cities.”