Just a Few Observations From Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Long-Ass Campaign Announcement Video
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For anyone full of self-loathing with seven minutes and 46 seconds of their life to waste, may I suggest watching the announcement of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s gubernatorial run? The former Trump Press Secretary and Arkansas native is ready to give back to the state that raised her by promoting “law and order,” prohibiting sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants, and opposing “radical” environmental reforms. Oh, and pushing for lower taxes, of course. Her campaign already has the following eye-roll-inducing tagline: “A leader with the courage to do what’s right – not what’s politically correct.
For those who didn’t watch her lie and obfuscate for her boss for nearly two years straight, the video positions Sanders as just another Republican, dedicated to America’s military might and convinced that the so-called “radical left” is poised to destroy the nation. Given her particular complicity to the Trump doctrine, she’s actually worse, but that certainly doesn’t hurt her chances: the position of Arkansas governor has seen both Democrats and Republican rule over the last 40 years, but Trump received over 60 percent of the state’s vote in the 2020 election and Sanders’s father, Mike Huckabee, was governor for nearly a decade. As much as Americans pride themselves on having little tolerance for kings and queens, we’re suckers for political dynasties.
Sanders’s charmless demeanor and monotone drawl were hard enough to sit through, but the following observations left me both bored and taken aback: