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Just the Trump party: Liz Cheney s demotion proves Trump still rules Republican politics, experts say David Jackson, USA TODAY UP NEXT
WASHINGTON – By choosing to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership, Republicans showed Wednesday they will move forward as Donald Trump s party, experts said, and Trump s myth of the stolen election of 2020 might as well be a plank in the campaign platform.
Cheney, R-Wyo., lost her position as the third-ranking House Republican after she unapologetically argued the party should move past Trump and stop echoing his debunked claim that a fraudulent election cost him the presidency.
The decision to remove Cheney as House Republican Conference chair – little more than three months after Republicans voted to keep her in the job – sets up a future in which GOP candidates will campaign as Trump acolytes and carry on his protests over his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
How Purging Liz Cheney From Leadership Will Backfire for the GOP
The conventional wisdom that the GOP can survive only by further appeasing Trump is wrong.
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If House GOP leaders move forward with their plan to purge Liz Cheney from leadership, they won’t solve any problems but will instead create even bigger ones for themselves, former President Trump, and the entire GOP.
The drawn-out and ham-fisted public campaign to humiliate Cheney for the crime of refuting Trump’s lies has gratuitously insulted not just Cheney, but, by extension, millions of Americans who are permanently unsettled by the events of January 6. The message to conscientious objectors uncomfortably hanging around the GOP is this: You’re not welcome, get out. Even Peggy Noonan is calling the move “cowardly.” She writes, “It will make the party look stupid and weak, as if it can’t tolerate dissent.” Is President Reagan’s premier speechwriter no longer