https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/12/liz-cheney-epitomizes-never-trumpers-betrayal-of-our-nation/
Like the rest of the Never Trumpers, Rep. Liz Cheney’s campaign is about destroying the GOP, not ‘saving’ it.
Liz Cheney may be enjoying being treated like a heroine by the leftist corporate media that demonized her father and family for decades, but she hasn’t completely lost touch with reality.
The Never Trump turncoat not only became a key leader of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s McCarthyite show trial of Donald Trump under the guise of investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, but has also been masquerading as that sham’s ranking member. But she’s aware that being the principal star of the Democrat’s prime time television show has made her the object of near universal hostility from Republican voters. That’s doubly true in her family’s home state of Wyoming, where her defeat in the upcoming August primary has more or less been ensured by Trump’s popularity and conservatives’ hostility to those who seem to think demonizing GOP voters is a viable political strategy.
With polls showing her as far as 30 points behind primary challenger Harriet Hageman, Cheney knows that she’s going to need something of a miracle in order to hold onto the congressional seat she first parachuted into on the basis of her famous family name in 2016. That’s why she’s done the logical thing to save her political hide and is appealing to members of the party that she effectively joined last year to carry on her vendetta against Trump. With a considerable campaign war chest (largely raised from Democrats and ancien regime Republicans), her campaign is principally concerned with an effort to convince Wyoming Democrats to change their registration and vote for her in the August primary.
In doing so, she’s essentially given up on the dubious effort to convince Republicans that her participation in the Jan. 6 Committee inquisition is a matter of saving the honor of the GOP. Few if any actual Republican voters ever bought that line. Most understand that her decisions have everything to do with the ongoing pique of the GOP establishment about losing control of a party that they once ruled, while giving little thought to the desires or interests of their voters.