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Mike Pence

US Vice President, 2017 to 2021

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A former Indiana governor and evangelical conservative who served as Donald Trump’s vice president and refused to block the certification of the 2020 election.

Mike Pence sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly traditional on culture, strongly religious on religion and strongly institutional on institutions.

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Where Mike Pence sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Mike Pence

William F. Buckley Jr. American author and commentator, 1925 to 200899%Antonin Scalia US Supreme Court Justice, 1986 to 201698%Ben Shapiro American conservative commentator98%Santiago Peña President of Paraguay, 2023 to present98%Álvaro Uribe President of Colombia, 2002 to 201098%Scott Morrison Prime Minister of Australia, 2018 to 202298%José María Aznar Prime Minister of Spain, 1996 to 200498%Billy Graham American evangelist, 1918 to 201897%

People furthest from Mike Pence

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19401%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19801%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20061%Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist and naturalist, 1842 to 19211%

Political views closest to Mike Pence

NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…95%Liberal conservatismCombines free markets and limited government with respect for institutions, tradition…93%One-nation conservatismA paternalist conservatism holding that the better off owe duties to the poor and to…91%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: D. Myles Cullen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.