I feel oddly comforted.
 I had been calling Trump "Putin's poodle". Sure, Pence is a great danger to the Republic, but he isn't Putin. 
But then, I have a dark hunch that I know more about Putin than I do about Pence. Is there another Nixon rummaging about the dark halls and offices?
I know some  Republicans, decent people, and it confounds me that we have such terrible trouble finding old timey Republicans to run America at the national level. People who, during the 1950's, saw the need to pay debt and so let tax rates rise.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon