Democracy Dies in Darkness

Sansa Stark should sit on the Iron Throne in ‘Game of Thrones’ — and it looks like she might

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Sophie Turner in Season 8 of HBO's "Game of Thrones." (Helen Sloan/HBO)

This post contains spoilers for “Game of Thrones,” Season 8.

With the army of the dead and their in-need-of-moisturizer leader, the Night King, no longer a concern, let’s get to the business at hand: Who will sit on the Iron Throne?

“Game of Thrones” has been playing up the bona fides of Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister as potential rulers of the Seven Kingdoms. But another, less obvious contender is worthy of consideration: Sansa Stark.