Nikki Haley may not have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the Republican nomination but she’s decided she’s not going to go quietly. She’s not only needling Trump constantly about his mental fitness, she’s taken on the RNC for their servile move to prematurely declare Trump the “presumptive nominee.” In her town halls in South Carolina she’s become downright feisty: I suspect it’s the laughing at him that bothers him the most although I doubt it’s the first time a woman has done so. You have to wonder what might have been if Haley and the others had gone after Trump this way from the beginning. I always assumed he would win the nomination but they didn’t have to make it so easy for him. Who knows, if they had jumped on him hard in those days after the 2022 loss when many in the party were saying they were getting tired of losing and blaming his disastrous endorsements, maybe one of them could have made a real run for it. In the end, trying so hard not to alienate him and his followers didn’t work anyway. But better late than never and and I have to admit that I find it fascinating to watch yet another rising star in the GOP self-immolate on the alter of Donald Trump’s MAGA party. I don’t expect Haley to pull a Liz Cheney. She’s really not that bothered by the authoritarian turn of the Republican Party. She just wants to be president…