Joe Biden has been sombre over the Liz Cheney affair. “It’s not healthy to have a one-party system,” he said
“HISTORY IS WATCHING,” Liz Cheney warned last week, as her fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives prepared to vote her out of her leadership position in their caucus, perhaps as soon as Wednesday. Her admonition might seem grandiose relative to the position at issue—the third-ranking role among the minority in the lower house. And yet, to members of both parties, the stakes are momentous: the direction of the Republican Party, the health of the two-party system, truth itself.
Republicans are rallying to Ms Stefanik for one reason: she has been zealous in spreading misinformation about the election and trying to overturn it. Most recently she backed a Republican-ordered audit of the vote in Arizona’s largest county despite several previous audits confirming Joe Biden’s victory.
Ms Cheney, who like her father never wavered in support of the Iraq war or America’s torture programme, suddenly has a fan base in the Democratic Party. Delighted congressional Democrats are praising her principles, courage and patriotism while they seize every chance to lament the Republican Party as descending into a cult of personality. For his part, Mr Biden has been sombre. “It’s not healthy to have a one-party system,” he said.
After the assault on the Capitol, Ms Cheney voted to certify the election, unlike the majority of House Republicans. She went on a week later to vote to impeach Mr Trump for provoking the attack. “There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” she said.
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