2. Liz Cheney has fallen because she stood up to Trump: it's a very consistent pattern over last few years that any Republican who does that is either swept aside or surrenders to Trump (as Lindsey Graham). The GOP's heart and soul belongs to Trump.
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3. Given Trump's near total control of GOP, it's hard not to admire those Republicans who at real political cost oppose him. But we have also to be clear-eyed that Never Trump Republicanism is a political dead end. There's no sign it has a constituency inside GOP.
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4. In the context of nearly completely Trumpized GOP, centrists and Democrats overvalue Never Trump Republicans and GOP dissidents, often searching for Trump slayer in GOP ranks. It ain't gonna happen folks.
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5. Some thoughts on why Never Trump Republicanism is a fantasy -- and why more than few centrists and Democrats are addicted to that fantasy.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-and-the-never-trump-fantasy?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Politico got their clicks and moved on.
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Once upon a time I would have thought purging Liz Cheney might have meant the GOP was returning to sanity.
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She is an ideologue, in a party that values identity over ideology, who went against the head of the personality cult.
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When she spoke out against Trump, his supporters viewed it as her speaking out against them
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