Two GOP apostates see the white supremacy
It’s interesting to see how splitting from the GOP on one issue can pull the veil from your eyes on others:
“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” Cheney wrote on Twitter. “History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., the only other Republican who serves alongside Cheney on the House Jan. 6 committee, tweeted that his “replacement theory” is that “we need to replace” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.; and Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., among others.
“The replacement theory they are pushing/tolerating is getting people killed,” Kinzinger wrote.
The congressman in another tweet again called out Stefanik for pushing the “white replacement theory” while serving as the No. 3 Republican in the House, a position Cheney was removed from for “demanding truth.”
I doubt either of these people are becoming liberals but I don’t think they would have said these things before they were ostracized by their party.
What you see with many Never Trumpers is that once they separate from the party they start to see the whole ugly project more clearly. These two are very conservative so I can’t see them switching parties (and I doubt we’d want them to) and I don’t know where they end up politically. Maybe they’ll move on to something else. But it’s interesting to watch the evolution.