Post script on Sarah Sanders

For months there had been speculation that Sanders would step down. It’s less clear from what, given that she hasn’t stood behind the podium to take questions from the press in more than 95 days. The New York Times summed up the job she is set to depart like this: “In Tokyo she took a sushi-making class. In London she posted a Buckingham Palace selfie with Louise Linton, the actress who is married to the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin. (In an undocumented interaction, she asked the Prince of Wales to sign her dinner menu. He did.) In Ireland Ms. Sanders and her husband, Bryan, took a photo with a group of Trump loyalists at the president’s private golf club and visited a local pub.” In other words, she’s spent the past few months like most Trumpian kleptocrats: enjoying the perks of government “work.”

With no actual accomplishments to memorialize in the traditional White House departure postmortem, Sanders will be remembered first and foremost not for what she did, but for how she did it: With frequent sneers and ceaseless scorn, she was one more woman who helped Trump launder his sexism and racism. Like Ivanka Trump, with her nebulous “women’s empowerment initiative,” or Kellyanne Conway, who claimed that women who oppose Trump “just have a problem with women in power,” Sanders has obfuscated and stalled and deflected, providing effective cover for some of the president’s most misogynistic behavior.

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Perhaps it’s no surprise that Sanders never seemed particularly popular with the media, even compared with her predecessor Sean Spicer, who made his mark as an ineffective dolt who could never quite read people’s names and will be best remembered for his commitment to...a lie about the size of the crowd at the president’s inauguration. Sanders earned the most positive media attention of her entire tenure at the White House after she was lightly mocked at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. So congratulations on that.

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Sanders offered up a last final insult to the press when she reflected on how she’d like to be immortalized for her work: “I hope that it will be that I showed up every day and I did the very best job that I could…to answer questions,” she said, “[and] to be transparent and honest throughout that process.”

Yes, the woman who wagged her finger at the press while the president pursued his hateful agenda and lied to reporters over and over, even when the matter at hand concerned no less than the fate of our free and fair elections, would like to be celebrated for her virtue. But the woman who told a CNN correspondent, “I know it’s hard for you to understand even short sentences, I guess,” was never an honest broker. Her allegiance was to the man from whom she derived her power, and the only “transparent” thing about her role was the depths to which she would sink to remain in his favor.

  Glamour.com

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.