republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, she s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. cheney formally launched her political career by trying to carpetbag a wyoming senate seat, despite being born in wisconsin and despite having much of her adult life being spent in virginia. as the intercept reports, cheney launched a campaign to represent wyoming with a facebook post geotagged, mclean, virginia, her real home. she was challenging incumbent wyoming senator mike enzi, a staunch conservative from the right. but he was she was never able to shake the carpetbagger label. or provide a coherent reason for why she was a better choice than nze other than i am a cheney and i wa
things. the danger isn t the fat dudes in maga hats invading the capitol. it s the brooks brothers women and men in suits that are going to the capitals, the state capitals of the country and changing our voting laws. or changing who gets to actually choose who the electors are. or it s the republican lawyers that are making decisions about how to actually mess up the count. that s the danger. the coup is not going to be a physical coup. it s going to be done, quietly, in the boardroom s, and in the county rooms. that s what we have to be afraid of. do you think these hearings can set the table for preventing that? it s we can t. no matter what, and as cynical as we all may be in this country, i think we do have a common vein that we love democracy. yes. we understand that we are all united in that blood that runs through all of us.