Mike Huckabee Is Both a MAGA Predecessor and Survivor

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It’s yet another token of the chaotic beginning of the second Trump administration that the confirmation of Mike Huckabee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Israel received little or no attention beyond the ranks of those mostly focused on Middle Eastern affairs. The Senate quietly okayed him on a near party-line vote (the intensely pro-Israeli Democratic Senator John Fetterman broke ranks to support him) on Thursday.

When Huckabee’s appointment was first announced back in early December...