Posted on 05/13/2021 5:56:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week’s removal of Liz Cheney from House Republican leadership is of monumental, symbolic importance. As with most things, it primarily has to do with Donald Trump. That is, of course, if you believe the mainstream media and its loyal partner, the #NeverTrump commentariat.
According to the haters’ telling, this is yet another moment in the epic struggle for democracy between themselves—the “principled” and “enlightened” conservatives—and the rest of us, the Neanderthals in the Republican Party still in thrall to our dastardly former president. And naturally, any criticism of the honorable Cheney over her behavior only shows that the GOP has become “a cult of personality.”
The real story is far more banal. In truth, Cheney is being removed because she is exceedingly bad at her job as an elected official and leader of the House GOP conference. She disdains her constituents—the very people she is supposed to represent and defend. She is monomaniacally set on endlessly re-litigating her conspiracy theories about the previous administration. Rather than defend her party, its values, or its message, Cheney jumps at the chance to repeat any story or argument meant to discredit the conservative movement, including false ones, in a vain effort to prove that she “isn’t one of those Republicans.”
For example, one of Cheney’s duties is to protect the Republican Party from attacks. When two-thirds of her colleagues in the House, and some of the GOP’s most prominent figures in the Senate, responded to the desires of their constituents by objecting to the Electoral College certification, Cheney rushed to the media to join the left-wing chorus condemning them in the strongest language. She has declared their objections to be ipso facto disqualifying behavior, should any of them ever choose to run for president. And she still routinely likens their desire to scrutinize our new voting regime, which was implemented midstream and removed safeguards, to Nazi propaganda.
Another of Cheney’s duties is to lead the Republican Party on messaging. But her clouded judgment when it comes to anything remotely related to Trump leads her, more often than not, to parrot the mainstream media’s every smear. She reflexively follows the Left in painting the rioters and the idle trespassers alike of January 6 as white supremacist insurrectionists. She practically tripped over herself to publicize the now-debunked story of Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers, in the belief that it would slime Trump.
When it comes to leading on policy, Cheney’s performance is just as horrific. When Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), as Chair of the Republican Study Committee, published a report on how the party can build on Trump’s gains among working-class voters, Cheney blanched in horror. Because its logic touched upon Trump, it therefore had to be disparaged. Noting that the Republican Party under Trump has become the party of the working class, in her view, was practically “neo-Marxist.” The first, most worthwhile plan from her party to chart a course after Trump was too much for her.
None of this is necessarily new, either. Cheney remained the third highest-ranking member of the Republican Party for over two years, despite periodically bashing her party’s president, spreading false smears against her own party, voting to impeach the president, and bashing her party’s policy proposals. If this is a cult, it is the gentlest in history. Regardless, leadership is a duty, not a right. Cheney has no entitlement to lead and to represent a party whose goals and values she so clearly and publicly despises. How can she even be expected to do so?
Even more, why would she want to? Perhaps she doesn’t. Cheney’s single-minded obsession with badmouthing Trump and her conservative colleagues is unhelpful for her party and detrimental to the country. True, it has been helpful for her reputation within elite circles. If Cheney has decided that it is time to leave Congress, her actions have only made the transition to a lucrative consulting gig or media prominent punditry role even easier than it already would have been.
Speaker Pelosi has already commended Cheney for her “courage” and “patriotism.” If this and the mainstream media’s reaction to her ouster is any indication, she will be further welcomed with open arms as a “hero” who speaks “truth to power.” The articles are so predictable they could be perfectly penned in a state of deep sleep.
The vote to remove Cheney is a referendum on one person, and one person alone: Liz Cheney. Her insistence—and that of the condescending elites around her—to make it about Trump only goes to show why she was bad at her job in the first place.
This is the second time you posted this crap.
The Personality Cult Branding by the praetorian guard is conducted with your post in mind.
Bottom l8ne Liz does not have the people in mind. She is a true swamp creature full bore on Globalization.
Face it. Liz Cheney was never a suitable candidate for a position of leadership, power or even public office. Sorry but a great percentage of post menapausal, estrogen depleted women do no have the emotional temperment or intellect to serve in high office. This mania for gender politics is harming America. Its not just Liz Cheney. Consider the politics and behavior of Pelosi, Harris, Murkowski, Collins, Duckworth, Feinstein, Kagan, Sotomayor, Walters, Hikono Whitmer and many more who are greatly harming the American nation. Nonsense has consequences.
This is about the Bush League Republicans shuffling the Assistant Democrats around to fool the rubes into re-electing the same people who voted Liz Cheney into leadership.
TransRepublicans: dressed up in R jerseys while working for amnesty for illegal aliens and a permanent majority for Democrats.
Lizard opposes Trump on policy. Don’t buy the “TDS” gaslighting.
It’s about Trump. If she was a MAGA supporter then she would not be having any difficulty keeping her position in the GOP.
She has text book TDS.
Good read. Thanks.
Bad read. She has severe TDS, that is why they kicked her out.
Very few votes actually matter. Don’t be duped by swamp kabuki theater.
Are you actually attempting to tell me me Liz did not have TDS? What BS....
Cheney went full Karen. Never go full Karen.
That is a really well-written article that fully explains the Liz Cheney situation!!
Everyone in Big Media should pause and be required to read this ... but they won’t, because they’re too full of hate to be objective
Cheney had no business being one of the leaders in the GOP House.
She only entered the House very recently. You cant be leader just because daddy used to be the VP.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
At this level of politics, I doubt that any of these people just wake up and say, “Gee, what am I going to do, today?”
This was just Round 1 of the GOPe attempt to kill-off a post-presidential Trump.
I do think the level of Democrat and media support that she got in her effort was shocking. The GOP has to know that they are completely alienating any base they had.
Nonsense has consequences.
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But no accountability. In fact, voters tend to reward nonsense with extended terms in office.
This is about the establishment closet-TDS needle-threaders led by McCarthy, not wanting to be exposed by having to publicly butt heads with 1 of their out-in-the-open-TDS cohorts. The repubs are 90% scum, the commie-dems are a full 100% now.
I’m trying to tell you Cheney wants endless war. Trump does not. Lizard wants open borders. Trump does not. She wants unfair trade, too. Trump does not.
THAT is where the political class makes their corrupt trillions and why they hate Trump. Their hatred nothing to do with his tweets or whatever gasligting nonsense they spout to cover their corruption.
That woman acts like a really pissed off first wife, whose husband got a load of her antics and ran off like his hair was on fire. These types NEVER get over it and are bitter and filled with bile the rest of their lives.
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