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Liz Cheney says she’s ‘thinking’ about running for president in 2024. (NYT)
My Take: Representative Liz Cheney lost the Wyoming primary by more than 35 percentage points in a sad but unsurprising commentary on the lack of intelligence of those who voted against her. I don’t agree with Cheney on most social and political issues, but I don’t doubt her moral integrity one bit. She saw what a threat Donald Trump was to not only the Republican Party, but to democracy itself, and she stood up to it.
In May, I posted an article called “Why America Needs the GOP—Just Not This GOP” in which I speculated that if I were president, my cabinet would be like Lincoln’s and include those who didn’t agree with me as long as they were motivated by logic and integrity, not just political ambition. Liz Cheney would be the kind of person I would want on my cabinet.
She was brought down by Republicans who still support Trump despite the thousands of lies he’s told, the sexual assaults, deliberately walking in on teenage girls in his pageants while they were undressed, overt racism, active misogyny, using his position to enrich himself and his family, illegally stealing and shredding presidential papers, trying to overturn an election, and encouraging a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Anyone who still supports Trump after all that are like the family that comes home to find someone broke into their home, ate their food, posted nude photos of himself on their bed, and urinated on their couch. They find a guy sitting on their patio wearing clothes from their closet drinking booze from their cabinet. They have security video of him doing all those things. But he says, “That wasn’t me. I heard a noise so I came to investigate for you.” The family is so grateful that they hire him as security to protect their home. That’s Wyoming Republicans. The biggest mistake is trying to appeal to this kind of non-rational person. They are not to ones we want guiding where the country should be going.
I hope Cheney does run for president. At least it will restore my faith that there are Republicans who do the right thing despite the personal career cost, because they are patriots before politicians.
