Liz Cheney has decided to oppose Trump’s authoritarianism. Her party’s leadership has decided to abet it. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images In early February, House Republicans voted, by a margin exceeding two-to-one, to retain Liz Cheney in her leadership post. That vote took place during a moment in time that, with the benefit of hindsight, we now see as a fragile equilibrium. The party elite had quickly given up their brief determination to expunge Donald Trump over his role fomenting an insurrection. But they were not yet ready to cede full control back to Trump.
Cheney is attempting to explain to her colleagues why her dissent is not about policy nor about personality She is arguing that Trump’s campaign to overturn and sow doubt in the election poses a singular danger to the republic that supersedes every other political question. In her speech to a mostly empty Congress, she described Trump’s ongoing efforts to undermine the election as “a threat America has never seen before.
The Republican strategy is somewhat reminiscent to the decision by France, Britain, and the United States to withhold support from all parties to the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s. The result of this neutrality was to starve the Republican government of support while Germany and Italy lavished arms on Francisco Franco’s Nationalist rebellion, which eventually crushed the Republic.
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