Nikki Haley’s Last Song, Dance, and Supper With the Big Donor Devils

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Nikki Haley’s Last Song, Dance, and Supper With the Big Donor Devils

The beauty of Nikki Haley’s suicide run against Donald Trump is the ugliness it exposes in American Big Donor politics.  That ugliness will be on full display this week in that bastion of Flyover MAGA County, Manhattan.  There, the now sputtering Rockette Haley will try to sing and dance for what is shaping up to be her Last Supper come the South Carolina primary.

This is what Republican presidential politics has groveled to: A small handful of self-interested billionaires still think they can buy the Oval Office and then use the last useful idiot standing in Donald Trump’s way to make even more billions on the backs of blue collar and middle-class America. 

Never mind the first and second choices of these billionaires to take down the Trump King, Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott, wound up like crash dummies in one of Tesla’s notorious auto-pilot cars.  In the proverbial triumph of hope over Trump’s MAGA machine experience, these oft-called “Big Donors” still cling to the notion that “Hail Mary” Haley offers “three times a charm.”

Why do these brilliant Big Donors not see their monied assault on Trump as a fool’s errand.  Over the last year, the more Democrat insurrectionists like Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Fani Willis, and Alvin Bragg have piled on Trump to subvert the 2024 presidential election, the more Trump has risen in the polls. 

By irrefutable analogy, the more the Big Donors have tried to bury Trump under a mountain of cash, the quicker Trump’s MAGA base has jettisoned any Trump alternatives dumb enough to take their arrogant cash.

That was the very first -- and ultimately fatal -- mistake of Ron DeSantis.  At the high-water mark of his popularity, DeSanctimonious publicly accepted the big bucks and bear hugs of the Big Donors and quickly descended into “he’s an opportunistic puppet” MAGA Hell.

Tim Scott was weaned on the campaign finance morays of the U.S. Senate where it is simply far easier to pad one’s campaign coffers with big special interest checks than build up a grassroots donor base a la Trump and disciples like Matt Gaetz.  Scott therefore never developed any facility to do what Donald Trump has turned into a fine art: Fund one’s campaign with small donors and thereby free himself from the bonds of monied politics.

With no real popular support even in her home state of South Carolina, Haley likewise had no small donor base.  With more ambition than good political sense, she has thrust herself headlong into her fifteen minutes of fame.  With no small irony, and like both DeSantis and Scott, Haley has thereby foreclosed any option of ever being on the Trump ticket as VP.

Just WHY are the Big Donors trying so hard to take out Trump?  Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, these donors are each self-interested in their own way.

Take Wall Street hedge fund managers and financiers like Ray Dalia, Larry Fink, Ken Griffin, Daniel Loeb, Paul Singer, and Steve Schwarzman.  Many have made billions by providing Communist Chinese with boatloads of American capital to export American manufacturing to the China’s sweat shops and pollution havens.  Never mind the American blue-collar carnage this offshoring has caused across a Rust Belt decimated by higher divorce, suicide, and alcoholism rates and an epidemic of drug overdoses from Made in China fentanyl.

Then there is the ultimate ingrate Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.  The last time I saw this pair of deuces, they were beaming in the Oval Office as Trump hung a Medal of Freedom around Miriam’s neck.  As a “thank you” to my old Boss, Miriam has donated to Haley, no doubt in the expectation that Haley will protect her casino interests in Communist China better than Trump.

Of course, the dean of Big Donors is Charles Koch.  For decades, he and his now departed brother Charles built the infamous Koch Network.  Every election cycle, this Network showers millions on Koch political pawns who promise to keep America safe – and all of the Koch’s chemicals, fertilizer, lumber, mining, and petroleum interests safe – from even the most reasonable environmental regulations.  And no one this side of MSNBC hates Donald Trump more than Charles Koch, precisely because the Kochs can’t control Trump.

Finally, let’s not forget the co-hosts of Haley’s Big Donor soiree in Manhattan -- Trump certainly hasn’t!  That would be more billionaires in Stanley Druckenmiller, Henry Kravis, Ken Langone and Cliff Asness.

What most or all of these Big Donors have in common are multiple and luxurious mansions in tony towns from Aspen, Palm Beach, and Southampton to Geneva and Paris.  In stark relief, many in MAGA America can’t even pay their mortgages while many more sleep under cardboard on excrement filled streets.

These billionaires also fly in large private jets around the world – with always a pit stop in Davos.  It is always from this Mecca of Globalism where the Big Donor elites, and the politicians they have purchased, love to lecture us about how to reduce our carbon footprints and why we must be taxed accordingly.

The only thing right about this very wrong picture is how vast swaths of America are quickly turning their backs on those who dare to take this Big Donor money. 

So bye, bye Nikki.  Thank God, we hardly knew ya.