But does she seem happy to you? The world has been mean. Beneath the toxicity, I detect brittleness. I wonder if she thinks about what she left behind in Alaska.
I wonder if she misses it. Nobody wants to talk about Palin. There is speculation from time to time about her running for state office, but chances seem remote. On occasion someone I know sees her in a yoga class or in the stands at a hockey game. Once, a friend encountered her really early in the morning, with no makeup, in Wasilla Walmart.
She looked tired, almost ghostly, the friend said. Who knows why Palin was up that early, but I imagine it was to shop in peace in her home town.
Just like the regular Alaskan she used to be. The rise and fall of Sarah Palin: plucked away from Alaska, she lost her soul. Apocalypse now: Sarah Palin's bizarre Trump endorsement analyzed. Read more. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase.
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Social Justice. Home Economics. Trump has only just left office; he has yet to give an interview; his second impeachment trial is underway; and his influence on the GOP seems secure enough.
The media will cover him for a long time to come, and hangers-on like Matt Gaetz will always be available for content. He will tease a presidential run, and maybe box out other Republican contenders in the process. But the center of gravity in politics always changes, whether he decides to run or not. What is Trump without his tweets? It was proof, yet again, that the political class is permanently addicted to the present, rarely looking up from Twitter to think about future possibilities that might contradict it.
With his social media megaphone gone, Trump is quite obviously a diminished man, operating in a media environment that looks a little more like , when the establishment media had a bit more power, and a little less like Yes, there are more conservative outlets today, and more discreet communities where the cult of Trumpism can flourish.
Without social media, his influence moving forward will now be much more dependent on the media and the Republican Party, and how much they choose to accommodate him. Right now they are. Better politicians, as always, will find ways to win by wresting power away from those who hold it, marshaling voters with messages of their own. Without the presidency, he already commands much less of our mindshare than he did only a few weeks ago.
Like Palin, Trump himself will recede over time, even if the damage he has inflicted on our political culture remains. The media has started to search for the next ambassador from Crazytown, the next ratings grab. In just the last two weeks, as cable-news ratings started to tumble without the constant drip of Trump outrage, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon Karen, became the new hotness.
The writers, as the Twitter joke goes, have embarked on a new season, with some wild new plot twists and characters. She said she recently met in New York with Trump, who has said he would make her a cabinet member if he becomes president. Tapper asked whether candidates had actively sought her endorsement. But maybe it brings a curiosity factor. They are both strong and very decisive and someone who would take the initiative. Axelrod said he was on a campaign plane with then-Sen. Axelrod delivered the news to his boss, who was surprised.
Four weeks later, Axelrod said, Palin had a damaging interview with Katie Couric, in which she seemed ill prepared and defensive when asked about things as trivial as her reading habits. After the campaign, she returned to Alaska and retired as governor a little more than halfway through her first term. She has never sought public office again.
Turns out that being herself is a pretty good gig. Twitter: AbcarianLAT. What San Francisco is proposing to help keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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