Mike Pence jumps on the grenade
When I interviewed Mike Pence recently, I asked him why so many people around him tell me the same thing: that the Marvel character he most resembles is the skinny, pre-super soldier Captain America who doesn't hesitate to leap on what he thinks is a live grenade. Pence laughed, and talked as he often does of trying to serve higher aims in whatever positions God sees fit to put him. It was only after I stopped recording that Pence added that actually, that comparison had been one that stretched back to his tenure in the House — that his friends called him Captain America in a positive way, and his foes with a roll of the eye. He implied he didn't want to say it when we were recording because it might sound boastful.
