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Friday, November 18, 2016

Ann Coulter vs. Nikki Haley

Click here for an article at Crooks & Liars by Karoli Kuns, entitled "If Ann Coulter Has Anything To Say, Nikki Haley Is Toast."

Wow. I do seem to remember that Coulter had made some anti-Haley remarks, but this article lists a surprising number of them. In the latest, with current speculation that Trump could name Haley as Secretary of State, Coulter tweets: "If Trump wants an Indian Sec of State, how about Tonto?"

The "Indian" reference, of course is to the fact that Haley's parents are immigrants from India. Nikki Haley herself (Nimrata Nikki Randhawa) was born in  South Carolina. In addition to Coulter's attacks which are just plain racist, she doesn't like Haley's lack of support for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina after the Dylann Roof church shootings in Charleston.
All snark aside for a moment, the space Trump made for racists to be out-racists, to openly express their hate for people who have come here from other countries, for them to express their neo-Nazi instincts publicly is really disquieting. We are going down a road that leads to a very, very dark place. Where no one is respected but the authoritarian reactionaries who have a vested interest in Making America White Again.

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