05-25-2021, 10:25 PM
(05-14-2021, 04:48 PM)Dill Wrote: And don't they know it. Their stated reason for removing her from leadership was that they want to move forward and she is stuck re-litigating the election and 1/6.
Unfortunately for them, Trump is also stuck there. He has no new plans or vision for the future other than proving he won the election and punishing any who challenge what has become orthodox for his base.
Republicans’ Overthrow of Liz Cheney Risks Worsening Their Headaches
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/trump-republicans-cheney.html
The message was unmistakable: Her colleagues may have stripped Ms. Cheney of her post as chair of the House Republican Conference, but they have effectively handed her a new platform and a new role as the leader of the small band of anti-Trump Republicans....
By excommunicating Ms. Cheney from her position, however, Republican lawmakers have created a host of new problems for their party.
They have underscored the grip that the increasingly unpopular Mr. Trump retains on their ranks; demoralized Republicans and independents who want to move on from his tenure; and, perhaps most significantly, emboldened a household-name conservative to take her case against Trumpism far beyond a Capitol conference room.
House Republicans knew what they had done as soon as they emerged from their meeting.
“That’s what it looks like when somebody is running for president,” Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama muttered to colleagues as they quickly walked past Ms. Cheney during her remarks in front of the cameras.
Other long-serving members, though, were more sobered by the divisions Mr. Trump is still sowing among Republicans and by the megaphone they had just handed Ms. Cheney....
“The difficulty is to get members to see the long-term advantages we have rather than the short-term struggles and nastiness,” Mr. McHenry said.
Most of his colleagues concluded that as long as Ms. Cheney was highlighting Mr. Trump’s conspiracy-mongering, and their own timidity, it would prove difficult to fully capitalize on those long-term advantages.
Yet it’s Mr. Trump who, well past Mr. Biden’s first-100-day mark, continues to present Republicans with their most vexing problem. At issue: how to accommodate a former president who’s beloved by their core voters, more detested than ever among the broader electorate and consumed with his defeat and campaign of retribution.
“Trump is the one who keeps raising it,” said Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump in January.
It's an all-around shitty deal for the GOP. Trump's authoritarian streak was cute when he was smashing the libz on social media. It's a little less fun when he's out of power and still lording his base and their votes over the party that probably wants to move on from him.
The Republican Party has essentially told anyone that's conservative yet non-Trump-scrote-licker that they have no place in the tent. You do not win elections by shrinking your tent and excluding voters. It's actually the opposite of how it works.
In the end, the choice to make an ousted moron the golden calf for the party to bow to might be the undoing of the party for a long time. His base still froths at the mouth for him to speechify and smash some libz, to be sure. However, there are still just as many if not more who hate his guts and will work just as hard to make sure nothing like a Trump presidency ever happens again.
