Sarah Palin lost her bid to "represent" Alaska in the House of Representatives. Does this mean our long national nightmare is over. One can hope. However, her spiritual descendants, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have Palin's stchick down, so no, the nightmare will continue.
How Palin came to represent all the worst impulses of the GOP is fodder for a doctoral thesis, but to put it in plain terms, Palin was and her ideological soul mates in the 2020s combine the American male fetishization of women with a toxic shout out to the worst, sexist impulses of the white male party members. Had she been a little more on point during the 2008 campaign, she would have been a heartbeat away from the presidency. If she was a little less lazy, she could have captured the 2012 nomination. Fortunately for us, she was and is too lazy to even finish a term as Alaska's governor.
On such slender threads hang our democracy...
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