There may be more surprises as we get closer to 2024, but Liz Cheney is unlikely to be one of them
Liz Cheney thinks so, even after Wyoming Republicans repudiated her in last week’s Congressional primary due to her steadfast anti-Trump stance. She was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, and a leading member of the committee investigating Trump’s involvement in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot — or insurrection, if you prefer.
In her concession speech, Cheney, a three-term House member from America’s least populous state, compared herself to Abraham Lincoln, who also lost a race for re-election before eventually becoming president.
Cheney’s comparison reminded me of the now-iconic 1988 vice presidential debate, in which Republican senator Dan Quayle blundered by comparing himself to President Kennedy. His opponent, Democratic senator Lloyd Bentsen, famously quipped, “Senator… I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator… you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
Liz Cheney would be the first to sign an emancipation proclamation liberating the Republican Party from Donald Trump, but she’s got a long way to go before becoming another Abraham Lincoln, whom many historians and presidential scholars consider to be one of the nation’s greatest presidents.
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