ALASKA CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION

Sarah Palin Was Trump Before Trump Was Trump

The real apprentice was Trump, and Palin was his mentor

Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking
8 min readApr 3, 2022

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Well, guess what? Our old friend Sarah Palin is running for Congress in Alaska.

Image of Sarah Palin by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America via Wikimedia Commons

She’ll be vying for Alaska’s one seat in the House of Representatives, competing in a Republican primary that should be a QAnon fanatic’s wet dream.

To celebrate this latest episode of America’s Idiocracy, let’s step back a bit.

You see, back when Trump was just a failed businessman hawking himself harmlessly on “The Apprentice”, which funded his attempts to recover from multiple bankruptcies, Sarah Palin ran with presidential contender John McCain as his running mate.

It was then that the American far-right discovered the joys of a full-throttled idiocracy.

Sarah Palin, rather than Trump, was the first major national political candidate to implode America’s political culture with an endless stream of idiotic statements. They came in so…

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Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking

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