Electile Dysfunction 2024

Nikki Haley Knows Better. Why Is She Pandering to America’sWorst?

The corrosiveness of American conservatism and Nimarata Randhawa’s sunken place

Jeffrey Harvey
Counter Arts
Published in
10 min readJan 3, 2024

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The cause of the United States’ Civil War was slavery.

There are layers of nuance to the history, economy, and culture of chattel slavery that ultimately erupted into the nation’s bloodiest internal conflict in April of 1861. That’s all subtext. Had the United States government never sanctioned slavery, or had the North and South both agreed on the status of America’s original sin moving forward, the South would not have seceded and there would not have been a Civil War.

Broken down to its root compound, the U.S. Civil War was a direct product of slavery.

Nikki Haley knows this. The surging Republican presidential candidate is 51 years old. She’s a life long resident of the South. She’s a graduate of Clemson University, one of the region’s highest ranked public institutions. She has served as a United States ambassador, South Carolina’s governor, and a congressional representative. She’s not a moron like Ron DeSantis, a pathological gaslighter like Vivek Ramaswamy, or a sociopathic agent of chaos like former president Donald Trump. In nearly 20 years of public…

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