Just want to be clear on this one, Pence is a nutbagger of the highest order. He wants to keep women out of the military and convert everyone who's gay, for example. (E.g.,
https://www.businessinsider.com/mik...-abortion-gay-marriage-women-reporters-2017-6). He's unequivocally bat*** crazy. But his main selling point is that he is not
literally trying to overthrow the US government and install Trump as dictator. In any prior era, that "strength" would not even be enough to keep someone out of the loony asylum, because tens of millions of Americans were not on the other side of the dictator "issue". But in the current climate, that actually makes him less bad than a lot of the alternatives (and, of course, a target for hanging by the make-Trump-dictator crowd). It does not, however, make his nutbaggery good, or better than any less-weirdo alternative.