Will the Left Respect Liz Cheney in the Morning?
Of course not. When they're done with her, they will treat her with the disdain she deserves.
by David Catron
May 9, 2021, 11:19 PM
While it is hardly unusual for the left and its media mouthpieces to reverse their positions on an issue or a public figure pursuant to the political exigencies of the moment, their sudden portrayal of Liz Cheney as a paragon of virtue after reviling her for years has been remarkably hypocritical even by their cynical standards. Mother Jones, for example, executed a typical about-face last week. Having once advised its readers, “Liz Cheney Wants to Make Torture Great Again,” that august publication now heaps praise on the Wyoming congresswoman for excoriating her Republican colleagues in a Washington Post opinion piece.
As the sole member of the Republican leadership to support the impeachment of then-President Trump for his alleged incitement of the January 6 Capitol riot, Cheney is in bad odor with the party’s rank-and-file, has been censured by the Wyoming GOP, and may well lose her leadership position. Much of the ire directed at Cheney involves her acquiescence in the failure of House Democrats to observe due process. As an attorney and two-term congresswoman, she knew this killed any claim to legitimacy the impeachment possessed. Yet her Post column compounds her duplicitous vote by parroting Democratic talking points:
The question before us now is whether we will join Trump’s crusade to delegitimize and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election, with all the consequences that might have.… Trump has never expressed remorse or regret for the attack of Jan. 6 and now suggests that our elections, and our legal and constitutional system, cannot be trusted to do the will of the people.… Republicans need to stand for genuinely conservative principles, and steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality…. History is watching. Our children are watching.
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