Nikki Haley was once among the vulnerable. Now she’s exploiting them

There was a time I admired Nikki Haley, though that was before she became expert at routinely using the most vulnerable among us as stepping stones on her way to attaining even more power. I grew up in the same South Carolina she did during the same time period and was relegated to underfunded hyper-segregated schools the way she had been. That’s why no one had to tell me how incredible her rise has been, becoming governor of a state that had never elected anyone but white men and had rewritten its constitution to ensure if any non-white person slipped through and made it to the governor’s man...