Nikki Haley "Joins the Fray" (UPDATED)

 

.@norahodonnell: "Do you think ultimately [POTUS] will be impeached & removed from office?"
Nikki Haley: "No. On what? You're going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn't happen & giving money & it wasn't withheld? I don't know what you would impeach him on." pic.twitter.com/GtSwBokVkU

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) November 9, 2019

Nikki Haley wasn't going to run against Donald Trump if he was running in 2024, but she changed her mind and is joining the fray.  She says she stands up to bullies, but I don't know if she understands Trump is the first one she needs to tackle to get anywhere. 

She aligned herself with his awful foreign policy--is she going to hit him there? She already negatively referenced the 1619 Project in her announcement, so she is still going to play lip-service to anti-wokeness (racism) even though she was the SC governor who took down the Confederate flag. She can't be a feminist in an anti-feminist party, and she can't play up her diversity beyond a certain point in a party that has made "diversity" a bad word.

I don't know what her lane is, but it's hard to see her plugging away in it past NH in 2024 to be honest.

UPDATE:

Yikes. https://t.co/fS5h6jC7Fp https://t.co/qrxQuN1Dwt

— Vixen Strangely (@VixenStrangely) February 15, 2023

Nikki Haley said she would want to be like a man who called Hitler a "half-breed  Jew" like you know, those Anti-Christs are.  He's also not a big fan of Catholics (he apologized for calling them the Great Whore, but you know?) He's a Christian Nationalist for a very specific version of Christian. John McCain rejected his support in 2008 (then partnered with Sarah Palin, so six of one....) and here we are. Religious signifying. 

She also said this wasn't a racist country just as a man who killed ten Black people in a supermarket for being Black was sentenced and suggested politicians over a certain age be tested for competency. (Donald Trump needs to be tested, then. Subtle.)  She never has figured out the race straddle. (The answer is--don't. There is no straddle. We have racism in this country, it is wrong, you can't ignore it to get beyond it.) 

Her announcement promised underwhelming, and she served it. 

The 2020 and Beyond Project

After criticizing the "1619 Project," a "New York Times" project exploring slavery's legacy, Pres. Trump says he will sign an executive order establishing commission "to promote patriotic education. It will be called the '1776 Commission.'" https://t.co/JsAo4rBy2e pic.twitter.com/Cw6o7qH994

— ABC News (@ABC) September 17, 2020

The 1619 Project is a work of journalism showing the throughline of race relations from slavery to the present in the US. It's not a curriculum or a hitjob on the American experiment, but rather a reconciling of the parts of history that aren't emphasized and the stories of those who were unstoried. The kneejerk assumption that this counternarrative is meant to indoctrinate rather than supplement the history people already are taught seems to me to be rooted in an ideology that doesn't concern itself with historical facts qua facts, but sees the narrative of history as being about the "winners", as if history was a zero-sum game where one story needs to gain prominence and others need to be denied breath. And if some other story exists, then?