How Pence Does Gaslighting
2 min readOct 10, 2020
Pence got away with a powerful linguistic trick twice within the first few minutes of the Vice-Presidential debates. What if Senator Harris had confronted the tricks instead of having to pretend Pence was actually debating issues?
Conflating ‘Trump’ with ‘the American People’
Harris criticized Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and Pence responded by saying…