MAGA Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) and her security detail were asked to leave a local restaurant after overstaying their welcome, according to a report. Sanders dined at The Croissanterie in Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 13 with two other people and her police security detail. She was at the...
She went to the place she wanted to go, with her guests and her security detail, and she got the food she wanted to eat. She had the chance to eat it.
Somehow even this write-up. which is not particularly sympathetic to her, is framing this as a kind of affront, a consequence, a humiliation. But she pretty much got what she came for, didn’t she? She’s facing no practical consequences at all. She lost a little face, maybe. This was a public declaration that people don’t like her, don’t like what priorities she’s chosen to serve.
Maybe we wouldn’t be in this pickle we’re in, if this kind of getting-through-to-the-isolated-elites happened more often. If we didn’t have isolated elites in the first place.