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Nikki Haleyโs campaign for president can be best understood by comparing it to the current television drama Yellowstone. The show is wildly successful and will spawn several spinoffs, and has an impressive cast. The New York Times calls it a โconservative fantasy.โ It features rough-and-tumble white people with cowboy hats and guns triumphing over city-slickers. Thatโs enough for the Times to consider whether or not itโs a โred-state drama.โ
Conservatives are now so used to the mediaโs attacks that they may be desperate for any representation in pop culture at all, even when it is purely superficial as in Yellowstone. The showโs producer in fact mocked the mediaโs naรฏvetรฉ, saying: โThe showโs talking about the displacement...