Kari Lake at a pre-midterm campaign rally.
Photo: Matt York (AP, Keystone)
You can’t lose. The Republicans, with whatever methods they used, recaptured the House of Representatives without the defeated politicians of the Democratic Party calling “election fraud!” would have screamed. But that doesn’t stop far-right candidates in particular, who have themselves suffered defeat, from unwinding Donald Trump’s script, including the accompanying undemocratic, more or less violent undertones. A prime example of this is Kari Lake.
– It demands total devotion—even willingness to imprisonment
The near-governor Kari Lake is still considered a possible vice president of a next Trump presidency. And she acts like Trump. A sad irony accompanies the spectacle.