How could my partner work with someone so awful? Because South Bend was more important. That is, as I would come to learn, leadership: the ability to put aside (huge) misgivings for the good of the people who elected you into office. But I’d still wonder, How does Peter do it? Eventually I learned that there’s a time and place to voice my opinion, and I knew that Mike Pence didn’t care about me or what I have to say at all.

