GOP Circling Its Wagons Around Trump–Too Bad for Liz Chaney and Other True Conservatives

Much to the chagrin of American conservatives, i.e., those who stand for Ronald Reagan’s values of small government and limited spending, Trump has successfully marginalized any congressional Republican who doesn’t maintain absolute loyalty to him.  God help him or her who’s bold enough to tell the truth about the “Big Lie,” aka the ridiculous “stolen election” narrative.

What’s happening to Liz Chaney is comical to watch, though it may work for the Republicans in the short term. The GOP has unified around Trump, and that may be enough for success in the 2020 mid-terms.  But eviscerating anyone of any integrity and sanity will fail miserably at the national level.

Chaney is a true conservative, and she’s fiercely intelligent.  If the Republicans are going to win a national election, she and her policies are far more likely to carry the day than those of the Trump cultists.

Keep in mind that Bush 43 had decent support from women, young people, college-educated people, even people of color, and he still lost the popular vote (twice). Trump has virtually none of that following, especially now, after the insurrection and the onset of other legal woes from hell. To at least 80% of these people, he’s regarded as the criminal sociopath that he truly is.