I was thinking about writing a letter to Nikki when an email arrived from her PAC touting Wednesday's speech. This is the response I sent:
I listened to the speech live. As usual, I agreed with the foreign policy views expressed by Ambassador Haley. But I was deeply disappointed with her revelation that she plans to vote for Donald Trump, who is diametrically opposed to our foreign policy views. He cozies up to America’s enemies and disrespects America’s allies. Joe Biden might be weak in his support for American allies, but Donald Trump at his best is just as weak as Biden, and at his worst he is opposed to everything America stands for.
Over the past few months, Nikki has built a movement of Americans who are ready to move on from Trump. With her announcement yesterday, she turned her back on that movement. For months, my friends and political allies have been warning me that my faith in Nikki Haley was misplaced, and that in the end she would betray the conservative cause again, as she has so many times in the past eight years. My Haley T-shirt says, “Make America Normal Again,” but she has given up on making America normal and has gone crawling back to the crook who permanently banned us. In 2028, I will be looking for a candidate who says the things that Nikki Haley says about foreign policy, but who actually has the courage of her convictions.
I personally find Haley's calculation really obvious.
She badly wants Trump to lose in November, then she can spend the next 4 years campaigning against Biden, which is in her wheelhouse. It doesn't actually matter whether Biden's 2nd term goes well or poorly. Republican media (plus some mainstream media) will tell American's that things are horrible, and a majority will believe them.
Of course, she is also counting on Trump going away if he loses, which isn't a given.
I was thinking about writing a letter to Nikki when an email arrived from her PAC touting Wednesday's speech. This is the response I sent:
I listened to the speech live. As usual, I agreed with the foreign policy views expressed by Ambassador Haley. But I was deeply disappointed with her revelation that she plans to vote for Donald Trump, who is diametrically opposed to our foreign policy views. He cozies up to America’s enemies and disrespects America’s allies. Joe Biden might be weak in his support for American allies, but Donald Trump at his best is just as weak as Biden, and at his worst he is opposed to everything America stands for.
Over the past few months, Nikki has built a movement of Americans who are ready to move on from Trump. With her announcement yesterday, she turned her back on that movement. For months, my friends and political allies have been warning me that my faith in Nikki Haley was misplaced, and that in the end she would betray the conservative cause again, as she has so many times in the past eight years. My Haley T-shirt says, “Make America Normal Again,” but she has given up on making America normal and has gone crawling back to the crook who permanently banned us. In 2028, I will be looking for a candidate who says the things that Nikki Haley says about foreign policy, but who actually has the courage of her convictions.
I personally find Haley's calculation really obvious.
She badly wants Trump to lose in November, then she can spend the next 4 years campaigning against Biden, which is in her wheelhouse. It doesn't actually matter whether Biden's 2nd term goes well or poorly. Republican media (plus some mainstream media) will tell American's that things are horrible, and a majority will believe them.
Of course, she is also counting on Trump going away if he loses, which isn't a given.