You are correct, Orwell was talking about the left, of which Pence is clearly not.
The connection is no more apparent in the underlying alt-left belief that reality is a social fabrication and we are God.
We can make a new reality by telling only half the truth and by  distorting or remaking the meanings of words..
These people live in the windmills of their minds and when reality intrudes it must be suppressed.
Here is a relevant quote from Orwell.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."