Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday tied the “dangerous” House GOP chaos to former President Donald Trump’s behavior and the Republicans supporting him.
“I wish that it were surprising. You know, what we’ve seen is a result of really the leadership decisions that Kevin McCarthy made back after the 2020 election and certainly after January 6. And, you know, looking the other way in the face of the kind of assault on our democracy that we’ve seen from Donald Trump and his allies in the House,” Cheney told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
Her comments come amid the House GOP’s high-stakes speakership battle after McCarthy was ousted more than two weeks ago. Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday became the latest to exit the race, prompting a crowded candidate field to seek the speakership.
Has everyone forgotten Reagan? Nixon? Generally the whole history of the USA?
I think of Trump like a car accident that broke a lot of bones, and Reagan as a pervasive cancer.
And Nixon was like a really bad infection that was caught a bit late and, though it was mostly treatable, some lasting symptoms persist.
The funny thing is that even the people who truly hated Nixon were pretty much okay with Ford pardoning him. They felt the humiliation of him being exposed and forced out was enough. What Reagan, Murdoch et al learned was that if they controlled the press, the next time they’d get away with it.