Eric Bolling of Newsmax asked Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, about former president Donald Trump who had been fingerprinted and had had his mug shot taken in an Atlanta, Georgia, courthouse after being charged with conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.
“We do need to rise up and take our country back,” Palin told Bolling,
“I think of those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice and I want to ask them, ‘What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war?’ Because that’s what’s going to happen,” Palin said. “We’re not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sarah-palin-warns-civil-war-020841662.html
Palin, the former politician-turned-reality-television star, has long been a supporter of Trump, the former reality-television-star-turned politician.
Before Donald Trump entered US politics, there was Sarah Palin – another uninformed, bigoted, white supremacist, nativist, demagogue who urged Americans to take their country back from . . . you know, African-Americans, native Americans, and other minorities who had been enslaved, massacred, marginalized, harassed, and discriminated against since white Europeans came to America five hundred years earlier – even though white Americans continued to control every part of American society.
“She is the first of a generation of politicians who live in a post-truth environment. She was, and there’s no polite way to say it, but a serial liar,” Steve Schmidt, a senior campaign strategist and advisor to U.S. Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Schmidt, who urged McCain to select Palin as his running mate and then sought absolution, said in an PBS Frontline documentary.
“She would say things that are simply not true, or things that were picked up from the Internet,” Schmidt added, “And this obliteration of fact from fiction, of truth from lie, has become now endemic in American politics. But it started then.”
It didn’t take long for Schmidt and other once-smitten McCain advisors to realize that the Palin was no more – and probably less suited — for higher office than a sewer rat and was certainly less cuddly than a sewer rat.
McCain and others, including pretty much everyone who worked with her, said she lacked the most fundamental knowledge of, well, everything.
When Palin compared herself to President Ronald Reagan, the standard bearer of conservative politics, Peggy Noonan, Reagan’s speechwriter said, “Excuse me, but this is even ignorant for Ms. Palin. The point is not, ‘He was a great man and you are nincompoop,’ though this is true.”
Belief.net blogger Rod Dreher said: “She makes George W. Bush look like Cicero.”
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker said, “If B.S. were currency, she could bail out Wall Street herself.” Conservative columnist Steve Chapman said, “And I silently weep that the right has been reduced to this absurd fantasist know-it-all who believes her ignorance is her selling point.”
Conservative columnist David Brooks said that she “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party.” David Frum a speechwriter for George W. Bush, said that Palin’s “divisiveness is not just within the country, it’s divisive within the party, and many fear, as I do, that while she’s very popular with some Republicans . . . she represents a future that leads the party both to political defeat and then to ineffectiveness in government.”
All this could be said about Trump, who, like Palin, lacked a fundamental knowledge of American history and exploited the three bogeymen of modern conservative politics – fear, bigotry, and greed – without giving so much as a nod to such conservative principles as free enterprise and limited government.
McCain lost the 2008 Presidential Election to Democrat Barack Obama in large part because of his selection of Palin. Palin then tried to sabotage Obama’s health-care plan by saying that the legislation had “death panels” that would decide who would live or die. This wasn’t true. But right-wing pundits, such as Sean Hannity and others on Fox News, claimed it was.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/the-return-of-obamacares-death-panels
Trump was the right-wing’s sequel to Palin. Like other sequels, it was more exaggerated than the original — more racist, more violent.
Palin was one of the first national political figures to endorse Trump for presidency.
“He’s been going rogue left and right,” Mrs. Palin said, using one of her signature phrases. “That’s why he’s doing so well. He’s been able to tear the veil off this idea of the system.”
The system, Palin was referring to, was American democracy.
