She's outta here
Never-Trumper Liz Cheney was just booted from the No. 3 position in the U.S. House.
I'm already hearing carping about how this is "cancel culture." It's hard to see how the cancel-culture concept applies to a politcian who's booted because of revulsion with the political ideas she expresses. One would almost suspect bad faith in the making of that argument, if it weren't for the incontrovertible virtue signalling that makes such a conclusion unpossible.
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Trust: Once broken, never mended. But at least Republicans are showing they are capable of learning from what is in front of their nose. It is little more than a start - but it is a start...
It's hard to see how the cancel-culture concept applies to a politcian who's booted because of revulsion with the political ideas she expresses.
She wasn't even relieved for that. No Republican Congressman of whom I'm aware disputed her right to voice those ideas. She was relieved because she abused her office as Conference Chair in her espousal of those views. She didn't speak as a private citizen, she didn't speak as an individual Congresswoman, she didn't speak in representation of her constituents. She spoke, repeatedly, as Conference Chair, masquerading her views as those of the Conference as a whole.
It's instructive that none of the other Republican Congressmen who voted for impeachment, who subsequently spoke as individuals, have come in for opprobrium from their fellows. Indeed, Dan Newhouse, up for a Deputy Whip position, voted to impeach, and then was selected for that Deputy Whip position.
Eric Hines
E. Hines - good points.
I will take the accusation of "cancel culture" against conservatives as evidence that the shaft has gone home about cancel culture among progressives. Pigs only squeal when they've been stuck.
Pigs only squeal when the conspiracy theories they derided, become main stream reality to the masses.
Things such as slavery.
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