After January 6, 2021, “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” In October of that same year, “He has the ability to get strong people elected, and he has the ability to move the ball, and I hope that he continues to do that,”she told the Wall Street Journal. “We need him in the Republican Party. I don’t want us to go back to the days before Trump.” Although it is hard to follow the ever-changing timeline, she pledged to vote for him in another interview in 2021. By 2024, she ran against the former president and standard bearer for her party in the Republican primary after saying she would not.
“In politics, the herd mentality is enormously strong,”she said. “A lot of Republican politicians have surrendered to it. … Of course, many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be for our party. They’re just too afraid to say it out loud.” This is the same Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina, former U.N. Ambassador (under Trump), and presidential candidate, who has raised the genre of B.S. to new heights with her flip-flopping and hypocrisy.
Blogs, columns, opinion pieces, and commentaries are easy to write about Ms. Haley because you only need to copy her words. Trying to pin her down on where she stands on any issue is like flying a kite in a hurricane. The twists, turns, and spinning tear apart any ideas you may have of holding on to sanity in the winds of her daily change. She has both loved and hated Mr. Trump’s politics. She has been appalled and in praise of his foreign policy. Heralded his leadership while saying he was a detriment to the party. Even in her endorsement Wednesday, she tried to hang on to her future in the party. While telling her followers she is the same Haley, who was a better alternative to Trump, she courted Trumpers for a future comeback. Haley said of Trump in February, “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone being president of the United States.” Of course, as with Hurricane Haley, she reversed her spin two days ago, “Trump has not been perfect on these policies. I have said that many, many times. But Biden would be a catastrophe. So, I will be voting for Trump.”
Despite her previous statements calling Mr. Trump “not qualified” and “lacking moral clarity,” Nikki Haley's hypocrisy seems to have no bounds. She famously said, “ I feel no need to kiss the ring” (insert your own joke). Unfortunately, her integrity, like the GOP setting aside the rule of law, has been eschewed for fear, expediency, and the quest for unabashed power. This is usually where one would insert Maya Angelou’s quote about Haley's character, but she has shown herself to be someone who changes her stance at the tip of a red cap, and no one knows who she really is; or do we?
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