Abigail Tracy, Vanity Fair
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After a successful start at the U.N., Haley appears to be trading diplomacy for a more valuable political prize: Donald Trump’s base.
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By the depraved standards of the Trump administration, Nikki Haley’s first year as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was an unlikely success story. ...
Over the last several weeks ... Haley has undergone a transformation that has perplexed the U.N.’s reserved diplomatic community, which is ensconced within the Midtown redoubt of Turtle Bay on Manhattan’s far East Side. After attaining a certain level of respectability, Haley rapidly migrated to Trump island—threatening to destroy North Korea, cutting off funds to countries that voted against the U.S. on Israel, and routinely condemning the Iran nuclear deal—a potentially dangerous place for those with future political ambitions. “Weirdly, what we’ve seen [in recent weeks]—the hectoring, the public diplomacy, the lack of calculation—is actually more like what her critics were predicting a year ago,” Gowan [JB - Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert and professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs] sighed. “And it’s not a good look.” ...
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