Sarah Huckabee Sanders just stepped in it

| 9:34 pm EDT April 7, 2024
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is, for lack of any other word, an idiot. She routinely came off like an idiot when she was Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary. Now that she’s inexplicably the Governor of Arkansas, she’s immediately gotten herself into trouble with a braindead scandal about a lectern.

Now Sanders has found a new way to step in it. She’s now declared a state of emergency in Arkansas over the upcoming eclipse. Yes, the eclipse. The press release says that this is because so many outsiders are traveling into Arkansas in order to view the eclipse, and that may be legitimate. But the optics here are beyond dumb.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is making it look like the people of Arkansas are so stupid that they need a state of emergency to keep them from staring at an eclipse or something. That’s not true. But Sanders clearly doesn’t understand the optics here.

Nor does she appear to be able to grasp that the eclipse is an economic opportunity for the fine people of her state. If this many people are pouring into Arkansas to see the eclipse, shouldn’t the Governor have been focused all along on making the most of the economic boom, instead of just declaring an emergency at the last minute?