As a celebrated villain from a space fantasy film series once said, “Everything is turning out just as I foresaw.” Almost everyone who has followed American politics over the past decade has seen the decline of Liz Cheney; her Trump deangement syndrome, her affiliation with Nancy Pelosi’s tame Republicans on the J6 Committee, her disastrous defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary to Harriet Hageman, and her ongoing uninhibited tirades against everything Trump-related.
Now her political decentralization is complete – Liz Cheney Campaign for Democratic congressional candidates.
Former MP Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is taking her anti-Trump fight to the congressional battleground, supporting Democrats in two contentious House races. This shows she sees the House as a potential threat to former President Trump if he wins a second term in the White House.
On Tuesday, Cheney endorsed John Avlon, a former CNN commentator who is challenging the Republican representative. Nick LaLota (RN.Y.) on Long Island. And on Wednesday, she threw her full weight behind Rep. Susan Wild, a four-term Democrat who is in a tough re-election race in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Further recommendations could follow.
That’s a lot of effort just to “get Trump,” so there must be something else at play here. After all, this isn’t the first time Cheney has done this.
Cheney has already entered the presidential race and announced in September that she would vote for Vice President Harris to stop Trump from running for a second term. And her push into the House races has precedent: In behind schedule 2022, Cheney endorsed two House Democrats with national security backgrounds, Reps. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Abigail Spanberger (Va.), both of whom had close reelection campaigns this year won.
Granted, I’m no better a mind reader than anyone, but Cheney’s actions speak louder than words. I’ve never liked the term “Republican in Name Only” (RINO) because it’s too often used to mean “Any Republican with whom I disagree on a particular issue.” It’s a broad brush that is often (pardon the expression) handled liberally. But in Liz Cheney’s case, I think the term is appropriate. It’s been a long time since Liz Cheney was anywhere near the mainstream of the Republican Party, and while she’s still registered as a Republican, she’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes. It elects a Democrat for president, it supports the Democrats in the House of Representatives elections, it spreads panic about the possibility of a second term for Trump.
Yes, in your case the title “RINO” fits.
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Unless I miss my guess, Liz Cheney’s slide to the left will continue. She made noises about a third party candidacy, although she didn’t do it this year. The people of deep red Wyoming want nothing to do with her, which is why she doesn’t currently hold office and won’t hold office in the foreseeable future. This is a pure good. But her endorsements still carry some weight with Democrats because they can frame her endorsement as a claim to being “moderate” since Liz Cheney is, after all, the daughter of Dick Cheney, whom the left called evil incarnate during his vice presidency – and who joined his daughter in her Trump Deangement Syndrome. But Republicans will and should continue to ignore their advocacy.
Still, I’d rather go hunting with Liz’s father than with Tim Walz.
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