Emboldening the Liar

"Cancel culture" at its finest:

Republicans voted during an internal party meeting on Wednesday morning to remove [Representative Liz] Cheney from her position as House Republican Conference chair, the third-highest rank among Republicans in the House of Representatives. They removed her via voice vote soon after the meeting commenced, meaning no member went on the record.

She got in trouble for accepting reality and expressing the truth.

Today, we face a threat America has never seen before. A former president who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him. He risks inciting further violence.

To be sure, Cheney is no friend of democracy, yet only a handful in the party can resist the Big Lie. Hopefully voters are paying attention and John Stoehr says the strategy risks blowing up in their face.

Now that Biden is president, the Republicans expect 2022 to be their year. But this dynamic depends on the incredibly short memories of voters. It depends on voters not comparing presidents but instead judging them in isolation. The Republicans, by going all-in on [Dear Leader], are threatening that dynamic entirely.

Stoehr argues Republicans are essentially at war against democracy.

[People] hear what leaders like Liz Cheney are saying, and the message is, I think, pretty simple. There is something profoundly rotten at the core of the Republican Party. There is something about the Republican Party that's against America itself.