Liz Cheney’s fall shows that Trump is here to stay – By Stephen Collinson (CNN) / May 6 2021
(CNN)The unmistakable message of Liz Cheney’s downfall is that Donald Trump will be a dominant figure in the Republican Party — and by extension American life — most likely for years to come.
The Wyoming Republican congresswoman is about to lose her No. 3 House leadership post after a lonely defense of the truth that last year’s election was not stolen and that Trump incited a riot in the US Capitol to try to overthrow it.
Those facts are unpalatable for most of Cheney’s House Republican colleagues, who have ambitions to rise in a party controlled by the former President despite his two impeachments, botched reelection bid, failure to properly handle the pandemic and insurrectionist exit from power.
Cheney nevertheless warned her party in a valedictory op-ed in The Washington Post on Wednesday that the GOP was at a “turning point” at which the party must decide whether to “choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution” or bow down to Trump.
CONTINUE > https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/politics/liz-cheney-donald-trump-gop/index.html
