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The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

Laugh at Sarah Palin all you want but there’s nothing funny about her role in dividing the US

‘Sarah Palin not the simplistic caricature she is often portrayed to be.’
‘Sarah Palin not the simplistic caricature she is often portrayed to be.’ Photograph: Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Underestimate Sarah Palin at your peril

Help! I am writing from beleaguered New York City which, on top of dealing with giant rats, a nasty nor’easter, and the surreal “swagger’”of a Bitcoin-obsessed mayor, is also battling a Palinvasion. Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has spent the past week running around the city eating at multiple fancy restaurants despite the fact that she has tested positive for Covid-19. Palin, who isn’t vaccinated and has said “it’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” has now become something of a public health hazard: New Yorkers are being told to go get themselves tested if they’ve been anywhere near her.

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