When they jettison Liz Cheney on Wednesday, the Republican Party will send a message to whatever sane conservatives remain inside its circus tent: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.
There’s a routine where Trumpists, most recently Matt Gaetz, go on about how, “They aren’t really coming for me. They’re coming for you. I’m just in the way.” That’s not true (they’re after Gaetz, for instance, for allegedly paying for sex with teenagers) but it is another classic case of victimhood and projection.
No matter what nonsense House Minority Leader and craven Trump toady Kevin McCarthy says about how “we are a big tent party” that “embrace(s) free thought and debate,” ousting Cheney from her role in Republican leadership isn’t just about Cheney. It’s about rooting out millions of center-right Americans who just aren’t crazy enough to be members of today’s Republican Party,
That’s from Matt Lewis at the Daily Beast who is carving out a place for himself as shrill Trump and Biden critic. Nonetheless, he’s making a good point: by purging Liz Cheney for believing that the election was not stolen, they are likely purging a whole bunch of Republican voters who believe the same thing.
Check it out:
That means the party is purging itself of a quarter of its voters.
This is a party that achieved a legitimate majority only once in the last 8 presidential elections. It can only maintain a majority in the congress through crude gerrymandering and the undemocratic Senate. And that was before it started purging its members for failing to blindly follow that orange-faced imbecile Donald Trump. No wonder they are frantically trying to rig elections all over the country. If they rely on democracy they are screwed.
And consider this as well:
On December 17, 2020, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republican, and 41% as Independent.
Think of all the people who split their tickets in 2020 because they disliked Trump but still saw themselves as Republicans. Is the GOP still their party?