This is a long way from the Mike Pence who argued that members of a president’s party had a duty to abandon a president who lies, even if the lies were about private matters, as they were in Bill Clinton’s case. “If our leaders flinch at this responsibility,” wrote Pence in the late 1990s, “they would do well to heed the Proverb ‘If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked.’ ”21
