Continued Trump Administration Fallout

[Dill]

(05-13-2021, 04:06 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Liz Cheney probably just wishes she could have Trump tortured until he admits that he rigged both elections.  She's the old GOP.  The new enemy of the people are the media, democrats, and non Trump Republicans.  

You know, I wouldn't call her "Old GOP," though the label partially fits. (Unless you mean "old" by the new Trump party standards.) This Atlantic article helps highlight some of the continuity between the Bush and Trump eras. 

Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame: The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate.  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/liz-cheney-trump-fraud/618820/

During the Obama administration, Cheney was a Fox News regular who, as was the fashion at the time, insisted that the president was secretly sympathetic to jihadists. She enthusiastically defended the use of torture, dismissed the constitutional right to due process as an inconvenience, and amplified the Obama-era campaign to portray American Muslims as a national-security threat.

Until the insurrection, she was a loyal Trumpist who frequently denounced the Democratic Party. “They’ve become the party of anti-Semitism; they’ve become the party of infanticide; they’ve become the party of socialism,” she said in 2019. Her critics now, such as Scalise and the buffoonish Representative Matt Gaetz, formerly gushed over her ability to bring, as the Times put it in 2019, “an edge to Republican messaging that was lacking.” . . .

“Americans have a right to know the identity of the Al-Qaeda Seven,” a 2010 ad from Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, intoned ominously, as if it were referring to the actual 9/11 hijackers and not the attorneys who had represented Gitmo detainees in court.* “Whose values do they share?" The Enemy has no rights, and anyone who imagines otherwise, let alone seeks to uphold them, is also The Enemy.

This is the logic of the War on Terror, and also the logic of the party of Trump.