Liz Cheney, a former US congresswoman, didn’t simply lose her seat in the state’s Republican primary on Tuesday.
She was destroyed. She was defeated 2:1. That amounts to 66.3% to 28.9% in numbers.
The successful effort by former President Donald Trump to oust the smug Cheney will be widely publicised. However, observers should see the vote for what it is: an astonishing defiance of the dishonest and abusive political system.
Many Republicans in the Beltway are awful. Cheney stands out because of how well she represents the political system.
That is ultimately what Wyoming people did to her, and it should serve as a lesson to other GOP crybabies who complain about the rise of the New Right under Trump.
Let’s start with Cheney’s aggressiveness.
If she had her way, America would be engaged in perpetual conflict in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Ukraine, which would turn away voters. Cheney termed it a “catastrophic blunder” and said that “terrorists thousands of miles distant may and will launch strikes against America” when Trump substantially reduced America’s interminable commitments in Middle East backwaters, including one in dismal Syria in 2019. They didn’t.
Cheney allied with progressives when the oddly Democratic-controlled Congress inexplicably impeached Trump after he had left office.
She disregarded the many Americans who were legitimately furious about the anomalies in the 2020 elections, such as the millions of votes that were distributed in the mail without being requested and were tallied without confirming voters’ identities. She referred to Trump’s efforts to challenge the dubious result as his “attempt to dismantle the underpinnings of our constitutional government.”
In fact, Cheney has significantly harmed that nation with a constitution.
Her willing involvement in the January 6 Committee, a McCarthyite kangaroo court, is meant to hide the left’s obvious animosity against Trump under the guise of bipartisanship.
She hasn’t shown any worry about how the FBI and other national security bureaucracies are being used as weapons to monitor and prosecute Trump supporters and other establishment critics.
Cheney has argued for increasing spending on the military and intelligence agencies even as government expenditures and deficits have gone from just imprudent to mad and contributed to inflation.
In a sense, Cheney is just being loyal to her own people and her own residence in McLean, Virginia. The CIA is located in the green suburb of Washington, D.C., right next to the Beltway thugs who make up the military-industrial complex against which Dwight Eisenhower warned.
Cheney was raised there and properly captures the location. She avoided Casper, the Midwest city that served as her father’s home and political base, even after she was promoted to Congress and had to return to Wyoming. She chose posh Jackson instead.
Ski lodges and art galleries are more opulent in Cheney’s eyes than farms, which may after all develop a distinct manure odour if you’re in the wrong spot and have bothersome visitors who inquire about Washington’s missteps.
Cheney doesn’t have to be concerned about her future job, unlike many incumbents who lose elections by enormous margins. An fawning leftwing media was planning her next move even before her demise was assured: a “Republican” who can take on Trump and lessen the burden on Democrats in their difficult fight to hold onto the White House in 2024.
Cheney dislikes anybody from the New Right who is ready to challenge the status quo and refuse to follow the rules established by the Democrats and the media, not just Trump.
Cheney said, “I believe that Ron DeSantis has aligned himself up almost fully with Donald Trump, and I think that’s extremely dangerous,” in reference to the very popular governor of Florida, who may be a more restrained and successful version of Trump.
Cheney is likely to participate in the Republican primary process in 2024 as an establishment contender. If that doesn’t work, she may run as a “independent” candidate to sway voters away from the Republican and maintain a Democrat — and the establishment — in the White House.
Unfortunately for Cheney, voters in the other 49 states will probably join those in Wyoming who rejected the idea of keeping a dangerous and inept establishment in office that has destroyed America.