Right out of the playbook it comes. After years of backing Donald Trump, it was time to distance herself. She hired consultants. She made a speech. And she had those consultants arrange an interview with the Washingtonest of Washington publications at an opulent coastal club where she made the split with Trump explicit.
Mission accomplished! That is, if your intention is to be a powerhouse Swamp lobbyist. But Nikki Haley is eyeing another occupation — President of the United States. Let’s save her any further effort. She’ll never ever ever win a Republican nomination for the highest office of the land. She just joined a growing line of Republican hopefuls who already have eliminated themselves in 2024.
Don’t mistake the real reason, either. It certainly is in part because she trashed Trump’s post-election behavior. The more precise reason her future aspirations are null was the vehicle she chose to transmit her Trump betrayal. It was Politico, one of the leaders of the liberal media’s four-year coup against Trump that included non-stop lies, hoaxes, and smears against him and other conservatives starting with spying against Trump in 2016 and ending with a second phony impeachment.
Conservative America — not those fake conservatives posing on liberal cable TV — understand the liberal media has transformed in recent years from an adversary to an institution dedicated to destroying its existence. Real conservatives understand that if they don’t develop more non-liberal news and social media sources, they are doomed to losing elections indefinitely. But not Nikki Haley. She apparently believes Politico, one of the nastiest dishonest purveyors of false conservative narratives and blockader of news that hurts Democrats, is the appropriate platform for her entrance into the 2024 presidential race.
Haley has other gaping blind spots when it comes to interpreting the news. She continues to parrot the liberal media’s lie about what Donald Trump said at Charlottesville, and she fell for the NASCAR noose hoax. Is she dumb or pandering? Either answer is unsettling.
Every single conservative still seething at the scams the liberal media, Big Tech, and the Democrats pulled in 2020 noticed that Nikki went to Politico. It’s not that Haley had much of a chance in 2024 anyway. On paper, Nikki is a formidable potential presidential candidate — smart, personable, a good communicator, and has an interesting life and professional story. However, among conservatives there always has been a notion that her adherence to conservative values is weaker than her personal ambition. Let’s just say she had an authenticity problem before her Politico debacle.
Nikki’s political strategy is right out of the Establishment Republican playbook. It might have worked in eras past. This is a different time, however. The battle lines between conservatives and liberal media, corporate America, Big Tech, and most major institutions in America are more distinct than ever. Conservatives understand we are in a war where our only allies are the bulk of normal Americans dwarfed in power by the rising authoritarianism of the coastal elites. You can’t pretend to be on both sides anymore. You can’t pretend the mainstream liberal media is legitimate. You have to assume they are your enemy and not engage them. None of the conservatives who hope to be president in 2024 should ever agree to an interview with any of the major liberal media outlets. Build up conservative outlets instead. We’ll need them going forward.
So save your money, Nikki, you are never going to be the Republican nominee for president. Enjoy the polished marble and golf at Kiawah Island and take in a Clemson football game now and again. Your future is a Washington lobbyist, not one of George Washington’s successors.