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Hey Governor Huckabee Sanders: If This Is ‘Normal,’ Call Me ‘Crazy’*
After the cleverest and among the most hopeful State of the Union addresses in my memory, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, newly elected Governor of Arkansas, gave the GOP ‘response.’
The “failed Biden administration” has apparently been hijacked by a radical left agenda which gave us skyrocketing inflation and indoctrinates children to hate each other based on race. “The Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face very day,” she said. “Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight.”
“The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy,” she declared. (Emphasis added.)
Call me crazy!
In Friday’s Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson discusses how strongman regimes are vulnerable and less able to respond to public crises than more open, less corrupt forms of government. She uses this week’s devastation in Erdoğan’s southern Turkey and Assad’s northwestern Syria as one example.
Richardson’s explanation of how and why strongman regimes emerge, it turns out, also describes the mental state of a large swath of…