They were upset by her criticism of Trump. So apparently Republicans don't like free expression when it comes to criticizing their dear leader. In response, they canceled her https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/house-gop-votes-to-oust-trump-critic-liz-cheney.html
cheney is an actual conservative who voted with trump like 92% of the time. if its really about policy then they should have wanted her, as she was a great advocate of their agenda...but its not about policy. its about being a butt-kissing cult member for an insurrectionist traitor and pathological liar. thats all the GOP is now - a cult.
The GOP left the realm of policy discussion when they ditched people like Romney as the face of their party and turned the face into the Trump family who never gave a **** about policy and only spew culture wars bs. It's a reflection of their voting base and the media they consume along with their zero sum outlook on socioeconomics. With wealth inequality increasing even amongst white blue collar families, they cling on to having a cultural hegomony as their crutch to make themselves feel powerful sacrificing any economic reform that would actually benefit them because it would also benefit poor minority families. Many of my right wing friends and former peers never give a **** about economic reform. All they care about is Libertarian platitudes about "freedom" and petty culture wars bs like trashing trans culture.
This is pretty crazy, it really makes no sense. Extremely difficult to support the party even with Biden
The Republicans embraced Bubba and Bubba took over, now they are a mess, a declining party, where most in this country do not agree with them....they will be getting smaller and smaller. DD
Their only policy is “own the libs” and she’s obviously not crazy enough to fit in. Move aside Liz! Have fun on CNN you RINO!!!
Can’t have any free thinkers in the party that don’t go along with the lie. Even if your voting record is 100% conservative if you don’t goose step you are shown the door. Go read 1984 folks this is the modern day GOP. Just keep pushing lies until they become truths. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
man...when the freakin Cheney's aren't right wing enough for you... it still feels surreal that they've gone full cult for Donald freakin' Trump GOP is off the deep end, and it - as January 6 shows - is seriously dangerous for the country.
I'd like to think that but Trump got more votes than any other president besides Biden. The Republican misinformation campaign and fear mongering is highly effective, and they can always lean on their remarkable base who will always vote for the R candidate no matter what. Not to mention their efforts to restrict voting and gerrymandering. They are rigging the system to win in any way possible. Actual policy is not at all the focus anymore.
a different view "The real reason Liz Cheney lost her job": https://theweek.com/articles/982174/real-reason-liz-cheney-lost-job excerpt: There is a place for debate over Trump, who could be a candidate yet again in 2024. Cheney didn't lose her job because Republicans won't have this debate. Her role was specifically designed to lead the party in its public response to Biden's governing agenda and to help it win the midterm elections next year, building on last year's improbable gains in the House. Whatever you think of a political party, it has a right not to turn such a position over to someone who is, in her own way, just as committed to relitigating the events of 2020 as Trump and whose allies think the party needs to experience "massive losses" to learn its lesson. Cheney's removal is not a sign of the GOP's deepening fealty to Trump. She was reaffirmed as conference chair shortly after being one of 10 House Republicans to vote for his unprecedented second impeachment, over the objections of the caucus' most committed Trump defenders. The supporters she lost in the interim were Republicans who believed moving on from Trump means not talking about him constantly and attempting to deliver for GOP voters now, under a Democratic president. Trump is himself a product of Republicans believing their leaders were more interested in having their concession speeches favorably covered by The New York Times than in governing according to their interests and values. In the absence of this perception, it is unthinkable that voters who had just given their presidential nomination to Mitt Romney and John McCain would hand it over to a frequently vulgar reality TV star from New York. But Trump's critics in the party have never wanted to grapple with this political reality and, after losing to him in 2016, have stopped trying to reach normal Republicans almost entirely. Instead they have redoubled their efforts to powerwash the party of all traces of Trump, even if it actually means burning the GOP to the ground. This may be emotionally satisfying, but it is not really how politics works. Despite our memories of Barry Goldwater heading to the White House during the darkest days of Watergate to tell Richard Nixon it was over, most Republicans stuck with Nixon until the bitter end. This includes most of the people who led the party afterward, as it won the White House and the Senate a mere six years later. It took eight years to hear a Republican on a debate stage speak in especially critical terms about George W. Bush without mostly turning off the audience (that Republican was Trump). Bush left Republicans in even worse shape in terms of presidential election vote share and representation in Congress following his two terms than they were after Trump's one. As with Nixon, most Republicans just quietly moved on. New Republican leadership responsive to its voters' concerns is ultimately the most likely way the party will turn the page on Trump, not Bush-Cheney-style regime change. That is the main reason Cheney saw herself on the wrong side of a form of regime change today. more at the link
Hot take: she was canned because she is a woman and a woman has no place correcting a man when he lies about having not lost the election.
That author said Cheney should not relitigate past events (the Big Lie, the Jan 6th attack) because is political poison for the party. His sight seems to be blind, not noticing the Big Lie is on-going and is the excuse behind all the new voter suppressions laws. He also didn't notice that Republican that stood up to the Big Lie, not in any leadership position, some who were elected and some who were appointed have been * canceled* by the Republican party throughout the nation. The real reason is clear and obvious - he's twisting himself blind to think of another reason.
