Haley cleverly declared her independence from Trump even as she lionized him and his policies — and savaged his critics
Nikki Haley is an impressively skillful opportunist in a treacherous GOP landscape. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of the more interesting sideshows in the circus of Donald Trump’s presidency and his party has been the generally skillful efforts of former South Carolina Governor and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley to play both sides of the road with respect to POTUS.
. It’s a manuever she has clearly mastered, as she has shown again in the new memoir she has published and in the vast attention it has gotten, as the New York Times’ Michelle Cottle acutely observes: [She began] lecturing her former colleagues on how they should have handled such disputes. “Instead of saying that to me, they should have been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan,” she said. “It should have been, go tell the president what your differences are and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing. But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing, and it goes against the Constitution and it goes against what the American people want.
[P]eople who really don’t like Donald Trump, both within and beyond the GOP, have a habit of treating her as the potential leader of a more open-minded, open-hearted, and far less piggy Republican Party. Aside from her gender and ethnicity , Haley has gotten probably more credit than she deserves for a too-late-to-be-courageous stand against a Confederate flag flying at the South Carolina statehouse, and for her occasional, minor acts of independence while representing Trump at the U.N.
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