Crash Course: Nikki Haley pandered to MAGA's bigotries for years — now Trump's turned that firehose of hate on her

Trump's not "afraid" of his primary opponent — he's using her to reinforce his white Christian nationalist brand [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvc3V4c2xndjZ5bS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcXB4cG9oZ3YwdS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcXlvaHVnOXl1Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd2Ezc2ltZjEwdy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvODRnZzJlYXpjZy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZW91Z3M0azVoeS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvemJ6cmU2OWR2OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDBXA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Nikki Haley pandered to MAGA's bigotries for years — now Trump's turned that firehose of hate on her From Amanda Marcotte: Much of the press is treating Trump's onslaught as a response to Haley's supposed "momentum," which is allegedly making her a campaign threat. It's true that Trump's brain is addled by over-consumption of cable news, so there is a thin possibility that he's caught up in the hype falsely implying she has a snowball's chance of winning the primary. 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Trump is, again, correct. Never to be forgotten is how Donald Trump and his first regime engaged in acts of democide and other forms of mass death through a willfully negligent response to the COVID pandemic, which killed at least 1 million people in the United States. Instead of punishing Trump and his Republican Party, the MAGA people and other right-wing voters rewarded the ex-president and his party for inflicting such suffering and death upon the country. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvYzZncTE0bWRrei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). [Subscribe to Salon today](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnjOlfP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsva3NjMHZ3bHczYy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWw1aHdhcTI3eDAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaJhZKplE1NzeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and unlock more benefits! 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