FILE – Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022. The Jan. 6 congressional hearings have paused, at least for now, and Washington is taking stock of what was learned about the actions of Donald Trump and associates surrounding the Capitol attack. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The resounding defeat of
Liz Cheney was more than the rejection of a courageous individual and principles. It is the repudiation of values and a vision of the world that shaped the republican party during a generation.
.It was also the denial of the reality of a thick head and the fact that President Trump lost the 2020 elections and planned it and lied to deny it, sacrificing the security and stability of the country On the altar of his infinite ego.
The winning election "would have forced to accompany the lie of President Trump," said Cheney in a scathing concession speech in a ranch near his home in Jackson, Wyo, a little more than an hour after the Closure of surveys Tuesday Tuesday. "He would have demanded that he allow his continuous efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our Republic.
."That," he said while daylight has held up on the bumps, "it was a path that I couldn't and couldn't take."
For years, Cheneys du Wyoming stopped with the New England family and Texas as dynastic pillars of the Republican Party. The loss of Liz Cheney in the primary of Congress on Tuesday, as well as the failed offer of George P. Bush this year by the Attorney General of Texas, sealed with category the coffin in the old party establishment and erased for the moment Any linear claim to its future future.
."It was not the republican party of the 80s, the 90s or even in the early 2000s," said Christine Matthews, a republican party and strategist chain that was a strong critic of Trump. "What it means to be republican these days ... is to be faithful to your tribe. These are not problems. Basically, that's what Trump says. ""
This means very little concentration on the government and a large amount of energy spent in resentment and in the regulations of old scores. This also means to ignore political initiatives and political philosophy, the engines of the conservative success of the Reagan era, in favor of the struggle and purge of people considered insufficiently obedient to the sovereign of the Republican Party.
.For almost 4 to 1, the Republicans interviewed said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who repeated Trump's lies over the victory of the last presidential elections. Fifty-three percent of the Republicans also declared that they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who puts the Liberals angry, which has gone to nearly 7 out of 10 among those identified as Republicans Maga. (Most of the Democrats, on the other hand, said that it was more important for a candidate to support the policies of President Biden than to Rile Up Conservative.)
is Vendetta's policy, and if the Republicans responsible for Cheney continue to fall, the prospects in the future after the elections in mid-November are not good.
"It is very difficult when one of the two main political parties does not recognize fundamental truths and is not willing to put the country first", with the exception of a handful of foreign policy problems , said the conservative strategist Bill Kristol, a Cheney defender who served the White House under President George H.W. Buisson
It is not only a retrospection with pink eyes.
President Reagan has never reduced political combat, or Bush or other Republicans of his time. But after the abrasing democrats of the campaign season, they worked constructively through the party lines to obtain significant legislative results. The Republicans also fought vigorously among them, then put aside the differences for the good of the unity of the party; Reagan even made Bush his vice-presidential partner after the two fought for the White House.
"There is a new Maga establishment," said Kristol, "and if you come across it, you are in trouble."
With his defeat, Cheney finished the passage of a candidate for the political martyr.
"This main election is over," he said on Tuesday evening to greet his supporters, "but now the real work begins."
then developed, offering a promise to "do everything you need to guarantee that Donald Trump is never close to the oval office".
This is a fight that Cheney and her allies need to win urgently.
Mark Z. Barabak is a columnist for Los Angeles Times.
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