I bring you some big news on this fine Sunday morning. Rep. Liz Cheney, following another dud of a January 6th committee hearing, has gone on CNN to announce that Donald Trump is, and you may want to sit down for this, unfit for office.
How original, right? I mean, it’s not like Cheney has gone on Jake Tapper’s show and made that exact proclamation more times than my dog has licked himself over the last two years.
“The violation of the constitution that he engaged in is the most serious misconduct of any president in the history of our nation.”@RepLizCheney tells CNN’s @jaketapper that she believes former President Trump’s actions make him unfit for office. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/latTTxhL6t
— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2022
Clearly, the walls are closing in. After all, Cheney and her committee recently revealed the game-changing bombshell that Sen. Josh Hawley raised his fist at protesters and later jogged down a Capitol Building hallway, likely after being told to do so by USCP officers. If that’s not evidence of a Donald Trump-led insurrection, then what is?
But I digress, I’m not writing this article to point out the absurdity of the January 6th committee, though I certainly will again at some point in the future. What I find more interesting is the delusion that is undergirding Cheney’s coming humiliation as she heads towards electoral defeat in a few weeks.
“At this point, I haven’t made a decision on 2024 …. I’ll make a decision on 2024 down the road,” Liz Cheney says on @CNNSotu of running for president. “I believe our nation stands on the edge of an abyss.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 24, 2022
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AP: “As primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest.”
(Not sure what polls they’re looking at…)https://t.co/YjEPK2gfX9
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 23, 2022
But as primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest. Cheney’s fierce anti-Trump message as vice chairman of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection has strengthened her national brand while expanding a national network of donors and Trump critics in both parties who could boost a prospective White House run.
I’m not saying Liz Cheney 2024 is the most beltway take I’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty darn close. We are talking about a woman who is about to lose her congressional primary by a wide margin, who was removed from GOP leadership in the House, and who is incapable of saying anything but the words “Donald Trump” over and over. Apparently, that’s what voters will be wanting in two years?
But forget about January 6th for a moment. Even if Cheney were completely disconnected from the topic, what exactly would make her a viable presidential candidate? Her rabid support for boondoggle foreign military interventions? Her liberal record on spending?
The entire thing is delusional, and it’s purely a coping mechanism for the fact that Cheney has burned her career to the ground by locking arms with Nancy Pelosi to chase a ghost. The grand conspiracy she’s been pushing since the day after the Capitol breach has simply not materialized, leaving her to rely on deranged grand-standing along with a media willing to constantly move the goalposts.
That’s all well and good if the goal is to get backslaps from Jake Tapper and Joy Reid, but it’s not a pathway to becoming a presidential contender. The idea that Republican primary voters in 2024 will galvanize around Cheney for “saving democracy” or some such is so farcical as to be dismissed out of hand.
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