This Sunday, I have some important news. Following another dud January 6th hearing by the committee, Rep. Liz Cheney went on CNN to declare that Donald Trump was, you might want to get down and listen, unfit to be in office.
It’s quite original! I mean, it’s not like Cheney has gone on Jake Tapper’s show and made that exact proclamation more times than my dog has licked himself over the last two years.
“The most grave misconduct by any president is that which he committed against the Constitution.”@RepLizCheneyCNN tells @jaketapperShe believes that Trump’s past actions render him ineligible for the office. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/latTTxhL6t
— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2022
It is obvious that the walls are getting closer. Cheney and her committee revealed the shocking revelation that Senator Josh Hawley raised both his hands at protestors and then ran down the Capitol Building corridor, probably after USCP officers told him to. If that’s not evidence of a Donald Trump-led insurrection, then what is?
But I digress, I’m not writing this article to point out the absurdity of the January 6th committee, though I certainly will again at some point in the future. Rather, I want to talk about the delusion that is undergirding Cheney’s coming humiliation.
“At this point, I haven’t made a decision on 2024 …. I’ll make a decision on 2024 down the road,” Liz Cheney says on @CNNSotuOf running for the presidency. “I believe our nation stands on the edge of an abyss.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 24, 2022
AP: “As primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest.”
(Not sure what polls they’re looking at…)https://t.co/YjEPK2gfX9
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 23, 2022
But as primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest. Cheney’s fierce anti-Trump message as vice chairman of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection has strengthened her national brand while expanding a national network of donors and Trump critics in both parties who could boost a prospective White House run.
I’m not saying Liz Cheney 2024 is the most beltway take I’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty darn close. We are talking about a woman who is about to lose her congressional primary by a wide margin, who was removed from GOP leadership in the House, and who is incapable of saying anything but the words “Donald Trump” over and over. Apparently, that’s what voters will be wanting in two years?
For a second, let’s forget all about January 6. What would Cheney do if she were totally uninterested in the subject? She is a fervent advocate for foreign military intervention. She is a liberal spender?
The entire thing is delusional, and it’s purely a coping mechanism for the fact that Cheney has burned her career to the ground by locking arms with Nancy Pelosi to chase a ghost. The grand conspiracy she’s been pushing since the day after the Capitol breach has simply not materialized, leaving her to rely on deranged grand-standing along with a media willing to constantly move the goalposts.
That’s all well and good if the goal is to get backslaps from Jake Tapper and Joy Reid, but it’s not a pathway to becoming a presidential contender. The idea that Republican primary voters in 2024 will galvanize around Cheney for “saving democracy” or some such is so farcical as to be dismissed out of hand.
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