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Title: Purges for Unity By Kevin D. Williamson
Post by: mystery-ak on May 10, 2021, 12:11:14 am
   Purges for Unity
By Kevin D. Williamson

May 9, 2021 6:30 AM

Why are Republicans dumping Liz Cheney, who just won reelection, as an act of symbolic fealty to Donald Trump, who just lost?

Y ou guys know he lost, right?

Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) is (probably) being pushed out of her leadership position, most likely in favor of Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), because Representative Cheney is insufficiently Trump-loving and Stefanik is superabundantly Trump-loving.

It’s that familiar Republican strategy: a purge for unity.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and other like-minded Republicans complain that it will be difficult for Cheney to do her job effectively in the current political environment, meaning the infantile emotional climate in which some number of Republicans stamp their feet and hold their breath like Veruca Salt when Cheney accurately characterizes Donald Trump’s disgraceful post-election behavior as a parade of lies marching through an avalanche of horsesh**.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/purges-for-unity/?taid=60985c1c4492f900010b98df&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Title: Re: Purges for Unity By Kevin D. Williamson
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 10, 2021, 12:49:11 am
Did the paper of William F. Buckley, Jr. seriously allow one of its columnists to use "horsesh**" in a column? Wow, how the mighty have fallen.
Title: Re: Purges for Unity By Kevin D. Williamson
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 10, 2021, 01:51:47 am
Did the paper of William F. Buckley, Jr. seriously allow one of its columnists to use "horsesh**" in a column? Wow, how the mighty have fallen.

Typical NR these days.  Wall-to-wall hatred of all things Trump.  They can KMA.
Title: Re: Purges for Unity By Kevin D. Williamson
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 10, 2021, 06:10:57 am
Okay she just was reelected, just before she crapped in her mess kit.

If that election was held today, would she win?

She isn't being booted from the party, just removed from a leadership position.

Someone so tone deaf about her constituents isn't leadership material.