But there were no tears for Liz Cheney — her star shines brighter than ever.
Cheney is the breakout star of this summer’s blockbuster TV series, during a hearing for the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol. As vice chairman and one of his only two Republicans willing to join the committee, Cheney was given the lead at the hearing. Joe Biden.
She never minced words when questioning witnesses. Most of them were Republicans.
Trump is a ‘domestic threat’“That’s just putting the republic in danger. She boldly declared that she intended to prevent the former president from becoming a future president. Here, she criticized Trump’s actions, including a Justice Department investigation. You might get some help from any of the countless investigations into which the FBI last week removed top-secret documents from a Florida mansion.
Cheney’s candor recalls a time when patriotism (sometimes) triumphed over partisanship and officials (sometimes) worked across the aisles for the greater good.
Her bravery in the face of outright hostility made this conservative conservative — the daughter of a liberal who was seen as the political Darth Vader — a darling of the Left. Democrats have worked hard on her every word and are dizzyingly happy that she’s become a central figure in what is likely to be the most important congressional panel since Watergate.
progressive donor Meanwhile, a congressman is desperately trying to entice non-Republicans to change their voter registration and cast primary ballots for her, while rushing to fill her campaign funds. Unfortunately for Cheney,
close to 73% of Wyoming residents already identifies as a Republican, making it clear that many despise her towards pollsters and journalists. (Cheney has faced numerous security threats.
Special protection detailsshe mainly
avoid the election campaign In a state that sent her to Congress three times.)
Now that she faces potential losses, Cheney is being touted as a future presidential candidate.
But who will support her? Democrats who put up with her oppose almost everything Cheney stands for, beyond Trump’s threat to her union.After all, she’s a staunch Republican and
Vote Trump 93% at the time(
and with President Biden less than 18% of the time).
Cheney has been strongly opposed to abortion rights and has supported gun ownership, but she was one of only 14 House Republicans to back a bipartisan bill on gun safety in June. have
Against Making a Path to Citizenship For illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children,
Strengthening voting rights laws Reformed the police in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.Like most of her Republican colleagues, she
longed for abolition obama care.
On Friday, she voiced broad opposition to Biden’s signature initiative and voted against legislation to combat global warming, cut prescription drug costs, raise taxes on wealthy corporations and reduce the federal budget deficit. Democrats passed the bill without a Republican vote.
When she ran for Senate in 2013, she
finally abandoned — Cheney has spoken out against same-sex marriage, but her sister had married a woman the previous year. (Liz Cheney has since
she said wrong.)
And with words and clothes, she has
paid tribute to women’s suffrage And for the young woman who testified about Trump’s Jan. 6 actions, Cheney was not a credible advocate for women’s rights.Quite the contrary, she voted against feminist standards such as pay equity, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and the protection of pregnant employees from discrimination in the workplace.
sole member of either party Oppose building a women’s history museum near the National Mall. Indeed, she was one of eight House Republicans who voted for.
Protecting access to contraceptives This summer, her position is more courageous than practical, comfortably placed in the American mainstream.
In that case, it seems highly unlikely that a feminist who admires her fearlessness in the face of the country’s biggest bullies would drive a candidate who has tried to thwart them at nearly every turn into the White House. So do progressives who love her heroism but hate her policies. Perhaps some moderate women and men in the Republican Party will support her, but for the Republican Party, which is currently dominated by Trump supporters, they are but a fading memory.
Conservatives, a trusted voter who elected her in the past, elected her father, Dick Cheney, to the seat she now occupies, making him George W. Bush’s controversial vice president. I stuck with him when I served. To win the Republican presidential nomination (or any other office), Cheney needs conservative voters in her party base. But the most Republican voters are no longer Cheney people. they are Trumpists.
can she get them back? About Trump’s corpse.
Still, don’t write off Cheney just yet. She doesn’t have her courage or brazenness. She is a formidable opponent.
Even if she loses this week, she’ll be back in America’s living rooms in the long-awaited September.
new season of the January 6 committee hearing.She may be, as her admirers prophesy
sacrifice her political future to save the republic. All in all, not a bad tradeoff. Again, perhaps she can save them both with the help of other democracy enthusiasts.
