Some may wonder how she got elected in the first place. Ms. Noem has never come across as stable, to me. Unflappable, maybe, but I’ve grown to see this as symptomatic of some sort of affective deficit.
She’s amazing at keeping her cool, very disciplined. It’s what comes out of her mouth, though– as she tries to control her temper and speaks in almost a monotone– that betrays some troubling tendencies and opinions.
And lately, of course, the whole shooting her dog… and goat, and 3 horses saga, along with an imagined encounter with Kim Jong Un– and the decision to include all this in her book– has placed her center stage and given people reason to wonder about a level of desperation, and maybe her sanity. All this may get one to wonder what kind of childhood she had, what influenced her worldview and caused her to take a sharp right turn into Miller speak and Trump worship.
Ambition will bite you in the ass, on occasion, but whatever Noem is trying to sell goes way deeper than ambition. It skews into wild political notions and a creepy demeanor.
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