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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Huckabee Sanders "stomped" Arkansas' poorest during the "worst session ever"
Arkansas' newly-elected Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders not so long ago the spokeswoman for Donald Trump's White House has been on quite the tear in her first 100 days in office. The chosen voice of the GOP's State of the Union rebuttal. The quintessential Southern heiress and political nepotism beneficiary. The awkward Trump leftover, who was repeatedly caught lying to reporters from her former perch in the Brady briefing room.
Despite all that, and her advocacy for a number of deeply unpopular policies, Sanders is the second-most popular among newly elected governors in the latest Morning Consult poll.
Sure, it would be easy to capture her first 100 days in the series of embarrassing fumbles noted online. Consider the cringeworthy commercial she recently released, which misses the mark of anything remotely comedic by trying way too hard for a laugh oh, and also leveraging performative transphobia.
Then there's Sanders' terrifically embarrassing Instagram hype videos, featuring her pitched-down monotonous voice atop what sounds like a electronic dance track from the most painfully sober club you've never been to.
One could also mention the ongoing battle Arkansas women face as they hang on to hope that federal judges will protect them from state bills banning abortion and, seemingly, even miscarriages. As a macrocosm of the damage Sanders is creating in the LGBTQ community, look at the state's efforts to ban trans people from accessing bathrooms. For a glimpse at the future trajectory of the state's Republican supermajority, one could even look at the absurd and impossible-to-enforce details of Arkansas' anti-social media laws.
But amid the flood of cookie-cutter MAGA bills that Sanders has shepherded through her statehouse, the ones with the greatest potential for long term damage aren't the high-profile, hot-button bills. Rather, Sanders' keenest stabs into Arkansas' future came with her attacks on public school funding and criminal justice reforms.
https://www.salon.com/2023/04/30/sarah-huckabee-sanders-stomped-arkansas-poorest-during-the-worst-session-ever/
brush
(53,841 posts)Has she accomplished anything fromher own merit other than being a daugther of a former governor?
jimfields33
(15,948 posts)Its a ridiculous thing. But I doubt it will change.
brush
(53,841 posts)no real accomplishments from her own merit.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)If they make it out alive from school!
Initech
(100,100 posts)In one breath they say we must protect children. But they're OK with kids getting shot at school as long as their precious guns aren't taken away.
In one breath they say that we must do more to support kids. But they're OK with kids getting married at 14, having tons of babies, and doing hard labor at an Amazon warehouse or a restaurant, because they're not qualified or educated enough to hold a decently paying job. And never mind that said jobs don't pay enough that these kids can't support their families.
Right wing Christians are completely out of their fucking minds.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Heads of State with authoritarian vent and ability
Something very wrong was going to happen at some point in all those incubators.
Initech
(100,100 posts)But they get elected because... Jesus, I guess?
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)for a human being, but I haven't found a good one. She is the antithesis of what she claims to be and quite frankly, lightning ought to crack every time she claims her "Christianity."
Nothing but contempt for that woman (and her father)... (and the brother that killed the dog)...
republianmushroom
(13,677 posts)MLAA
(17,321 posts)and distracted from recognizing how badly they are being screwed by those who can afford private schools and are now benefitting from laws to shift public education funds to private schools.
Blue Owl
(50,491 posts)The kind of person you wouldn't want to live in the apartment above you....
live love laugh
(13,128 posts)Its the Republican way.