{"id":23474,"date":"2026-06-01T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pence-questions-trumps-conservative-credentials-and-hostility-to-constitutional-order\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:22:36","slug":"pence-questions-trumps-conservative-credentials-and-hostility-to-constitutional-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pence-questions-trumps-conservative-credentials-and-hostility-to-constitutional-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence questions Trump\u2019s conservative credentials and \u2018hostility to constitutional order\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday shared grievances with President Trump for abandoning his conservative base for populist ideals.  In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Pence notes a shift in Trump&rsquo;s tone and rhetoric that now focuses on widespread reform in the form of populist policies&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5903490-pence-criticizes-trump-conservatism\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday shared grievances with President Trump for abandoning his conservative base for populist ideals. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Pence notes a shift in Trump&rsquo;s tone and rhetoric that now focuses on widespread reform in the form of populist policies&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}