Sarah Huckabee Sanders: a hideous figure in American life
The Trump story isn’t just hollow. It has become boring and shallow. The evidence of that was the hackneyed response speech on behalf of MAGA Republicans, delivered by the pathological liar and daughter of political grifter Mike Huckabee.
Donald Trump disdained America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. He called them “suckers and losers.” The sight of combat wounds revulsed Trump, who made clear his contempt for wounded warriors when they were out of sight and the show was off camera.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was among Trump’s most accomplished liars, gaslighters and abusers of the American people during her shameful public service. Apparently, she was just getting warmed up.
Last night, Huckabee Sanders ludicrously proclaimed herself the voice of a new generation. She isn’t, but if she were the name would be “Generation Rotten.”
She peddles fear and platitudes in a stew of performative outrage, seasoned with two dashes of malice, a sprinkle of division and a dollop of imbecility.
The most astounding moment in her response occurred when Huckabee Sanders — vessel for ceaseless lies in the service of a grotesque man and a cause riddled with insurrectionists, thugs, neo-Nazis, extremists, conspiracy theorists and criminals — claimed that she stood as a sentinel holding back craziness from breaching normalcy. The performance wasn’t just dark and bitter, nor simply delusional and self-serving. It was a cynical rant from an alternate reality where Jesse Watters is a truth teller, and Judge Jeannie would be a great Supreme Court justice. The Republican response was a sophomoric audition tape for the FOX News prime time crazy hours, during which paranoia is mixed with venom and conspiracy to make billions, while lashing the nation.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a hideous figure in American life. She lacks character, dignity, honesty, self-awareness and respect. By that measure, she was the perfect choice to speak for a party in which a low man like Kevin McCarthy has risen to the top — or at least to the short line at Mar-a-Lago. What a disgrace, and what an embarrassment for Arkansas.
It was painfully obvious that Governor Huckabee Sanders (it pains me to type that) had written that godawful speech well in advance of the SOTU, and not a single word was changed after the SOTU was over. While the President addressed real issues that affect real Americans, Huckabee Sanders spoke of a "dystopian hellscape" (Senator Chris Murphy's description) where "woke mobs" and CRT instructors lurk under the bed with the bogeyman, waiting to kidnap your children.
President Biden was masterful. Huckabee Sanders was an embarrassing caricature of her MAGA-liar self.
(P.S. If you're unfamiliar with the "Dark Brandon" memes, you should look them up. President Uncle Joe went into full-on "Dark Brandon Mode" last night, and I for one am here for it!)
After the first self-serving 2 minutes it was hard to watch; so I didn’t.