Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was hard at work this week earning her “Michigander card” by successfully choosing Faygo sodas over Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew in an Instagram taste test.

She yukked it up, squelched an on-camera belch and seemed to be having a big time letting her Big Gretch persona run loose. It was cute, even a tad funny.

And it would be a perfectly appropriate way for the governor to connect with her constituents, except for the fact that cutting up on Instagram and TikTok seems to be all Whitmer is doing this summer, in between some cool trips to Australia, England and Ireland, and planning for her next bucket-list junket to Japan next month.

Good thing Michigan is doing so well its governor doesn’t have to break a sweat. Check that. Michigan is a mess. Yet Whitmer still choos

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