Representative Liz Cheney appears poised to lose her job in the Republican House leadership tomorrow morning. Why you ask? Because Cheney committed the most horrific of crimes in Republican circles these days, she told the truth. But even more heinous than that, she told the truth as it relates to Donald Trump and the 2020 election.
Yes, Cheney had the audacity to speak out against the big lie. Every time Cheney is asked about Trump and the 2020 election, she tells the truth, and that clearly does not sit well with the Grand Old Party of Liars. You can not be a member of the cult in good standing unless you repeat endlessly that the election was stolen and that there was voter fraud. However, here on plant earth the election was not stolen. Illegals didn't vote. Thousands of ballots were not flown in from SE Asia, etc., etc., etc.
"The election is over," Cheney said in her speech tonight to the House, and she will not roll over and sit quietly by while this thuggish liar, Donald Trump, continues to attack Democracy. And make no mistake, that's what Trump and his friends like Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, just to name a few, are doing.
Unfortunately for our country, Cheney is on a virtual island by herself. She, Adam Kinsinger and Mitt Romney seem to be the only GOP members of congress who have continued to show the backbone to speak out against the two-time popular vote loser, and one-term president. They have recognized Trump for what he is, a dangerous cult leader like Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, and alike. No, that is not to strong of a comparison.
Trump has led an insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple Capitol Police officers and one of his supporters. He ignored the pandemic, but even worse, he actively undermined the medical professionals to convince people that they shouldn't wear masks or take this disease seriously. That led to the deaths of half a million Americans. His far-right rhetoric about immigrants and other scapegoated groups, has led some of his most twisted supporters to try and assassinate prominent Democrats. It led one deranged Trump supporter to shoot up a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, so he could stop the "invasion" and then of course there was the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh where another Trump supporter, radicalized by Trump and the far right's rhetoric about George Soros and all those made up conspiracies, shot and killed 11 people who were praying.
This body of evidence is what has got Cheney and a tiny minority of her Republican colleagues upset. Donald Trump and the people who keep backing his bold faced lies in Congress are a CLEAR & PRESENT danger to the future of the country.
Regardless of where you live in the country, you must identify these blind, cowardly and feckless Trump supporters in Congress and vote them out the next time they come up for re-election. Only by paying the price on election day will this weird Republican cult ever have any chance of recalibrating itself to something that possibly could resemble normal.
If you still do not believe it's a cult, watch the reaction Romney received at a Utah GOP convention.
The negative reaction Romney received came in a state that he won in 2018 by 30 percent, and it bears repeating that only eight years ago, this was the Republican Party standard bearer. It boggles the mind how quickly the Republican Party has swirled down the bowl in such a short period of time.
Cheney wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post explaining her position, and it is a must read.
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