Former congresswoman Liz Cheney voiced concerns about the future of the Republican Party, suggesting it may be unsalvageable after nearly a decade under the influence of former President Donald Trump. Speaking at the 2024 Cap Times Idea Fest, hosted by The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, Cheney told New York Times journalist Peter Baker that the GOP has become deeply corrupted by Trumpism.
“It’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party survives because it’s been so corrupted,” Cheney said during an hour-long conversation that covered national politics, her support for Vice President Kamala Harris, and her views on the current state of the party once led by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Cheney argued that America needs “two strong parties” to offer voters meaningful choices but expressed doubt about the GOP’s ability to return to its roots of traditional conservatism. She criticized the fealty of many conservatives to Trump, which she believes has significantly damaged the party.
When Baker asked if the party could rid itself of Trump, Cheney responded, “We need our political system to reflect the goodness of the American people… It’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly that people ought to be voting for Republican candidates until it recognizes what it’s done.”
Cheney added that the path forward might require people to focus on supporting “serious, responsible” individuals rather than the party as a whole. She acknowledged the potential for a major political shift but said, “I don’t think it will just simply be, ‘Well, the Republican Party is gonna put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races.’ I think far too much has happened. It’s too damaging.”
Baker pressed Cheney on whether the U.S. might need a new political party, similar to how the Republican Party emerged from the collapse of the Whig Party in the 19th century. Cheney did not rule out the possibility.
“It may well be because, again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man,” she said, referring to Trump.
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Good luck 😂
She’ll get two votes, hers and her daddy’s
The Republicans would be thrilled if Liz Cheney started her own party. Like Cheney herself it would be a one issue party revolving around hating Trump. It would largely be funded by Democrat donors who she would then need to cater to. As such it would primarily draw votes from the Democrats.
If Cheney and her ilk were really so altruistic about hating Trump they would have campaigned for anti-Trump Republicans in the primaries, instead of waiting until Trump and co won the primaries and then started whining about it
You are the tool
The way to do that is to vote Dem. When the GOP loses badly enough that they have no hope of ever winning with Trumpism ys”v, a civil war within the R party will split it and she’ll get what she wants. So for the sake of America and for the sake of the R party, vote Dem.
She is a puppet of the elite class
If MAGA has solid control of the Republicans, while WOKE has solid control over the Democrats, then there is a big ideological “in between” that could be filled by a new party reflecting the ideologies of for example, Reagan and the Bushes on the Republican side, and Clinton (vintage 1992) and Joe Lieberman on the Democrat side (in effect, a DINO/RINO fusion opposing the MAGA and WOKE. At this point, it would require Democrats unhappy with WOKE to leave their party, which hasn’t happened. If either party has a disaster in the upcoming election, and the old fashioned partisans don’t reassert themselves, there will be room for a new party (more likely, the losers will hide in a corner and the DINO and/or RINO will take control back).