Former President Donald Trump, flanked by a coterie of hard-core MAGA lawmakers, appeared in Wyoming this weekend to campaign for Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) Republican challenger.
As long as he does his “but enough about all those kids that were murdered, look at me” dance while he’s there.
It’s pretty amazing that a standard Republican from 20 years ago is a pariah in today’s Republican party. I doubt I agree with many (if any) of her policy positions, but Cheney is the kind of Republican the nation needs…sure, we disagree, but in the end we’re all Americans and want the best for the nation. There are far too many Republicans who have selfishly decided that all that matters is getting what they want, regardless of how it might affect others, and it comes through in their police positions and the politicians they elect.
Cheney needs to win for the good of the nation…if she loses it’s just one more indication that the Republican party is choosing to install a dictatorship of hate and force the rest of us into their Christian theocracy. That will mean the end of America as a nation of laws, the undoing of the Constitution, and likely lots of violence as people resist being ruled by hatred.
“Liz Cheney is about America last,” [Trump] told the crowd,
And by “America”, that former guy of course means himself.
“Fortunately, on Tuesday, August 16, you have a chance to vote for a tireless advocate for the people of Wyoming, Harriet Hageman.”
Tireless?!? What, have the wheels already come off of her campaign?
I think Liz is through attacking tfg who last I heard, is not the President. That’s a hard reality to disbelieve.
Trump is a virulent cancer.
She voted with Trump 98% of the time.
Let’s not cover that fact over.
The initial polling isn’t good, but her last name still means something in that state. She hasn’t even started campaigning yet (there will be time for that after the 1/6 initial report is out), and she has a large war chest to spend on ads. She’s about to get plenty of TV exposure too with the public 1/6 hearings, although I don’t know if that will help or hurt her prospects.
I’m not making any predictions, but I’m hoping there are enough Wyoming voters who don’t want outsider meddling to keep her in office.
I agree, but I’ll offer just one, minor quibble: I honestly don’t think religion motivates them.
I think the majority of the rump GOP’s base uses religion merely as a cynical fig leaf – a means to justify their otherwise-unjustifiable position – and would abandon “Christianity” in a heartbeat if it ever got in the way of power (and its resulting privilege).
IMNSHO, the true organizing principle and raison d’être of today’s Republican Party is racism.
It seems pretty clear to me that, after “White evangelicals” ignored Roe for several years and only awoke to politics after the Bob Jones decision that stripped federal tax-exempt status from racially-segregated schools, race clearly trumps religion for these folks.
The megachurch has become just a convenient infrastructure; that it ostensibly serves Jesus is simply a vestigial artefact. These people could just as easily shift their belief system to Odin – or even to atheism – so long as it better served their racial bigotry.
Of course, YMMV.
She’s also a fan of torture and supports waterboarding. She’s a vile individual pursuing a personal vendetta against Trump because he threatened her life that day. That’s all this is. She doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution except where it provides a way to knife Trump in revenge.
But we can use her for now. Winning her primary would be the biggest loss for Trump’s influence in the party.
These Republican espouse “Christian values”, values that are an antithesis of what is written in that book, that book Trump held upside down. They have no concept of community or society.
She’s a Republican from a conservative state, so that’s not a surprise at all…and, she was voting with the party, not necessarily with Trump. Let’s not forget that the leaders of Congress didn’t go along with the things Trump tried to push, they really followed their own agendas as if Trump was a normal Republican president. That won’t be the case in 2024, if Republicans get Congress they won’t hold back on their wildest impulses anymore.
Cheney gets marks simply for standing against the rising tide of hatred that the Republican party has become…that doesn’t ignore anything she’s done before, it’s pointing out that so few Republicans will do the same anymore. We need Republicans like her, even if we disagree we don’t have to worry about Cheney trying to overthrow elections and install a dictatorship…we can’t say the same for the rest of the party anymore.
The Christian right’s religion is racism, sexism, anti-LGBT, misogyny, and so many other destructive things. I’ve been calling them “Christian” for a while now, simply because that’s what they are…they have twisted the Bible around to do what they want, ignoring what it actually says in the process. A lot of Americans have fallen for this, and since it’s religion it’s really difficult to deprogram them.
I would campaign like Sherrod Brown campaigns in Red-State Ohio.
And stick to that. Jon Tester and Tim Ryan come to mind. Stake out what makes a person a NATIVE OF WYOMING and beat up on any interloper who stands in her way.
A lot depends on how weak her opponent is on the above.
Those were sick moves
There are 3 mega churches in my area and I know, or knew, members of the 3.
Each one will explain to you, or any one who is willing to listen, that their church preaches the Gospels and the other 2 do not.
When the Christians take over who do we believe?
Tfg only has two settings, serve me and I’m going to get you for not serving me. They’re both based in fear, and his fear of Cheney right now way up there. He has no balls, but if he did she’d have them on her desk right now and deep within the sick balloon of bile and hate that sits on his fat body he knows it.
The House Dem leader (whether Speaker or not) has to be adept at keeping the coalition together—akin to herding feral cats—and knowing how to whip votes, use the rules to advance policy positions, get legislation passed, and deal with the vagaries of the press corps.
Hakeem Jeffries is probably as good at those things as any other Dem except Pelosi.