Friend,  

Announcing a Presidential campaign on Valentine’s Day hours after a mass shooting? Sounds about right for Nikki Haley.

No political figure better illustrates the moral collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley. There was a time not very long ago when she was everything the party thought it needed to win. 

When Donald Trump ran in the 2016 Republican primary, Haley stood next to Senator Marco Rubio, the candidate she had endorsed, and eviscerated Trump as a racist the party must reject.

At the time, she sold herself as courageous, someone who would always fight for principle and never back down. And back down she did. 

She transformed herself to oppose everything she once claimed to support. Even while Trump ran a Presidential campaign degrading women and minorities, she took a coveted spot in the cabinet. And as the years went by, she began embracing her inner MAGA. 

After famously taking down the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, the Trumpified Nikki Haley began to defend the so-called “heritage” of the flag. And as Trump put his bigotry into real policy,  Haley continued to defend his work on the world stage, further degrading America in front of its allies and enemies. 

Her rise and fall only highlights what many of us already knew: Trump didn’t change the Republican Party; he revealed it.

Nikki Haley embodies the moral failure of the party to win at all costs, even if it means embracing authoritarianism and autocracy. That’s why we can’t just defeat any single politician. We have to beat Nikki Haley, Trump, and completely take down this MAGA movement.

We’ve seen Trump break candidates in the primary before. But now Haley is entering the race already broken. 

She will never be the voice of truth she briefly was in 2016, and despite her years of attempts to win over the MAGA base, she will never win this primary. But no one should feel sorry for Nikki Haley. It was her choice.

Now, the female star of the Republican Party isn’t the daughter of immigrants who took down the Confederate flag. It’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, who sells Christian nationalist memorabilia and is now arguably the second-most powerful member of the House. 

So let Nikki Haley parade around, claiming to be the “future of the Republican Party.” She represents nothing other than its moral rot. And to anyone thinking she can win?

Foolish thinking.

Everyone but Trump right now is a sideshow. And as always, it’s up to the majority of pro-democracy Americans to stand up and defeat it. I’d appreciate it if you could support our cause today.

-Stuart