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Liz Cheney's Improbable Dream of a New GOP
The former Republican representative’s goal is admirable, but unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Pipe dreams?
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Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative and persistent burr-in-MAGA’s-saddle, said recently that the GOP had devolved into such a “cult of personality that it’s very hard to imagine that the party can survive.” After 2024, Cheney said, “we’re going to have to have something else. Something new.”
Despite Cheney’s desire for a new democratic, conservative party that can “engage” with Democrats on a rational, public-spirited basis, the current GOP seems unlikely to fill that role anytime soon.