Nikki Haley’s Presidential Bid

Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley (Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley) will announce her candidacy for U.S. president on Wednesday.

Not much to see here, folks.  She’s a garden-variety conservative, though she doesn’t sport Donald Trump’s sociopathic tendencies.  She’s not a career criminal, a pathological liar, nor a spoiled child.

As a consequence, we can expect her to perform better in the election than, say, a traitor who desperately tried to overthrow the U.S. federal government.

Exactly how much better, however, remains to be seen.   It will depend on voters’ appetites for the current-day elements of the GOP platform: its enmity to LGBTQs, the poor, people of color, women’s rights, black history, epidemiology, and climate science.