Olivia Troye was so close to discovering Mike Pence. It came right down to “I wish he would do the right thing and stop defending”and excusing the former Not going to happen. And here’s why.

Anyone and everyone who has a working, business or personal connection to the former becomes tainted, sullied, and complicit. After looking at Mommy and reaching the conclusion that he cannot be that person, he made a decision.

He decided to defend to the death his relationship to the former. To do anything less would be to admit that not only is his judgment faulty but that he is just as amoral. And that cannot stand. One thing Pence is sure of is his devotion to his religion. And his religious indignation. And it is so painfully obvious that the former is antithetical to everything that Pence embraces.

So the Christian side of him is recoiling and regurgitating while the political side of him is looking for a way out. And a way in. He will be unsuccessful at both. But he will be successful at divorcing himself from any semblance of reality and whatever he might think is his road to salvation.

In the meantime the former will need a bigger bus for all the folks he wants to run over And the wild ride will continue until the legal system finally acts as it should and brings the bus to a stop.