At a crucial moment for her party and the country, Liz Cheney broke with Donald Trump. But the hard-line politics she used to pursue power, including Islamophobia, gave rise to Trump and eventually her own downfall. onesarahjones writes
Photo: David Stubbs/REUTERS On Tuesday, inevitability claimed the political career of Liz Cheney. The Wyoming Republican lost her primary race to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman by over 30 points. Yet she may not be out of politics for long. Presidential speculation has already begun to circulate thanks in part to Cheney herself.
Cheney went on to become a Trump critic, and she co-chairs the House committee investigating the insurrection. “She didn’t think another two years sitting at the right hand of an invertebrate like Kevin McCarthy — in a caucus stacked with cranks, bigots, cowards and time-serving hypocrites — was worth the price of her silence,” the anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes wrote for MSNBC after her loss.
During Cheney’s long tenure in public life, she stoked the same nationalism that gave rise to Trump. As Spencer Ackerman notes in his book, Reign of Terror, she co-founded Keep America Safe with fellow neocon Bill Kristol and Debra Burlingame, the conservative sister of a pilot killed in the September 11 attacks.
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