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The fear of a looming Trump dictatorship
Washington Post ^ | 12 04 2023 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 12/04/2023 4:26:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming is the poster child of a Republican establishment abandoned by the party’s far-right base. Now, she’s billboarding what may come next: In an interview with CBS aired Sunday, Cheney lamented the extent to which the Republican Party had been “co-opted” by Trumpism and said she feared the potential of a vengeful Trump presidency in 2025.

“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney said.

Cheney’s refusal to accept former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him — and her decision to publicly rebuke Trump for his role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — got her ostracized from the GOP and cost her the House seat. She has spent the months since campaigning against his potential reelection, to little avail. Trump is the heavy favorite to emerge as the Republican presidential nominee, no matter the slew of legal cases against him and even the prospect of imprisonment.

In her CBS interview, Cheney said a Trump victory could mark the end of the American republic. “He’s told us what he will do,” she said. “It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take.”

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KEYWORDS: cheney; chuckfeney; democracydiesinwapo; dictator; fakenews; ishaantharoor; lizardcheney; lizcheney; trump; washingtoncompost; whitewashinghamaspos
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To: yesthatjallen

She has brain damage.


21 posted on 12/04/2023 4:37:47 PM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liz Cheney of Wyoming is the poster child of a Republican establishment abandoned by the party’s far-right base.


That’s funny, I thought she was ‘abandoned’ by her Wyoming constituents. Either that or she abandoned them.


22 posted on 12/04/2023 4:37:59 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Olog-hai

This won’t be a sunday school picnic, it will get ugly, there are no easy answers at this point, except PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP


23 posted on 12/04/2023 4:39:18 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: ridesthemiles
IF LIZ CHENEY is YOUR BEST SOURCE for anything that happens in the future-—

You Might as well check yourself out NOW.

SHE IS NUTS.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

24 posted on 12/04/2023 4:40:04 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s what Biden is now for goodness sakes…


25 posted on 12/04/2023 4:42:12 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: yesthatjallen

The fear? Yeah, only to you DC elitists who are lower than dogshit on our boots.


26 posted on 12/04/2023 4:42:51 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: yesthatjallen

We already have a dictatorship


27 posted on 12/04/2023 4:44:32 PM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liz has stepped off the bus! Donn’t be shocked if one day she is on TV and goes full on crazy.


28 posted on 12/04/2023 4:44:49 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: yesthatjallen
Ishaan Tharoor

Who gives a darn what some foreign scumbag thinks or writes...

29 posted on 12/04/2023 4:47:19 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: ridesthemiles

No, she is not nuts. She is simply an inveterate liar, who projects her own inner desires on others.


30 posted on 12/04/2023 4:47:34 PM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: yesthatjallen

<< [Cheney] has spent the months since campaigning against his potential reelection, to little avail. >>

If anything, like all the indictments, it only helps President Trump. Keep up your public displays of bitterness and insanity, Liz.


31 posted on 12/04/2023 4:48:42 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Zathras
The entire GOP Congress needs to go full on attack on Liz.

Problem with that is there are many Rino's in the GOP that agree with her. Those big-govt, establishment R's are a big part of our problem.

32 posted on 12/04/2023 4:48:57 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: yesthatjallen

If Trump was going to be a dictator would have not done it when he was first in office?


33 posted on 12/04/2023 4:50:52 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: yesthatjallen
As of now, the closest thing the United States has experienced of a sitting president refusing to leave at the end of his term is when Bill Clinton refused to release transition funds to President-Elect George W. Bush while Al Gore's contested election trial was taking place in Florida in December 2000.

Once again, it was the Democrats who crossed the line.

-PJ

34 posted on 12/04/2023 4:52:04 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: yesthatjallen

They want riots in the streets or worse. They’ll burn the house down to get their way.


35 posted on 12/04/2023 4:53:37 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: yesthatjallen

Yup...dictatorship.On his first full day in office he’ll order that every resident of Martha’s Vineyard and Malibu be rounded up and shot.


36 posted on 12/04/2023 4:53:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: yesthatjallen

Q: What do you call a Republic with fake elections?

A: A Dictatorship.

The regime is worried. They used Germ Warfare in alliance with Communist China to implement mail in voting. Mail in voting is what give them the margin of fraud needed to steal the election. Since this is the very definition of Treason and treason is a hanging offense you can be damn sure they worried.


37 posted on 12/04/2023 4:54:38 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Effing reptile Lizard Cheney.


38 posted on 12/04/2023 4:55:58 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: All

They don’t even believe what they say so I can’t even bother being mad. They just want people to waste the energy shadowboxing


39 posted on 12/04/2023 4:58:10 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: yesthatjallen

some people don’t know when to STFU She helped destroy evidence and should be in prison


40 posted on 12/04/2023 4:59:57 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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