I don't think it should have fallen squarely on his shoulders. There were thousands of officials that were obviously either afraid to fight, unwilling to confront the criminals, or actually complicit in the coup.
Had Pence been the "hero", it would have blown up in his face. The way it worked out though, the bed wetters have failed in almost everything they've attempted to do, and the awareness of the globalist power brokers, and especially their nefarious agenda has increased along with the popular resistance to it.
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