Tina Fey had the easiest job in the world. Satirising Sarah Palin. Because Sarah Palin says the most ridiculous things, all Tina has to do to get loads of laughs is just repeat them. Sarah did all the work, back when she was running to be vice-president to John McCain in 2008, creating the easiest path for Barak Obama to win his first election.

“If God had not intended us to eat animals, how come he made ’em out of meat?” she stated. And its a good point. One with which I heartily agree.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke”. Another statement that, whilst lacking subtlety (Sarah NEVER does subtle) is something that appeals not only to the gung-ho predominant spirit of middle American, but has a certain home truthism appeal to everyone except Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornbury (his new shadow defence secretary).

Sarah knew nothing about the economy. Not much about policy. Agreed with waterboarding. Loves guns. Shoots animals. For fun. And is more prone to malapropisms than was George W Bush (and that’s a very high bar).

Yet masses of Americans loved her. For her normality. For her hockey mumminess. For her ability to make a point they could immediately relate to and agree with, even if it was brutally unencumbered by any concession to political correctness or even common decency. She spoke her mind. What there is of it.

And like Nigel Farage and most of the far right, making outspoken soundbytes is an easy way to score points on a ‘gut reaction’ level’. That’s the success of the Daily Mail. To say things that most think but won’t say out loud. Things that don’t bear much scrutiny, aren’t in any way practical, but just ‘feel good’ on a very superficial level.

Sarah is now 120% behind Donald Trump. They are kindred spirits. Mind speakers. Joint believers that everything America ever does is right and good because America has done it. No other reason is required. A good nation can only do good. They’re not into objective validation. Not at all.

“People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation. Like building a mosque at Ground Zero”. Sometimes even Sarah gets it right.

Oddly, though I generally detest all hard-right people, I really like Sarah Palin. Probably just because she’s funny, but I kind of admire not only that some of what she says is indeed what we all think, but also because she makes no claims to be anything she isn’t.

But I just hate Donald Trump. He’s like the unfunny version with a stupid comb-over. All the spite and venom, none of the wit and humour. You can relate to her; not to him.

Happy Thursday, after a magical win for Spurs last night. Shame we didn’t get 3 points for it, but that’s the magic of the FA Cup.

A xxxx