he was a terrible sheriff and i think it was a bad signal to send that he gets pardoned. it s one thing to commute the sentence and say he s 85 years old and he shouldn t go to jail. but to pardon him as if there is no guilt? i wouldn t do that but i guess he can. he s been pretty good at keeping his core base together, but his speech in arizona, which was completely unhinged and crazy, and then the pardoning of arpaio on friday night, they were winks to his base that he s still with them, and he s going to do the things he said he was going to do on the campaign trail, despite the fact that it s divisive and really appalling to most of the country. i think the arpaio brand is actually not a bad brand within the republican base. i think it s like sheriff clark. just certain kind of folk heroes, even going back to joe the plumber, that the republican base connects with. even if it was 85 years old,