If Liz Cheney doesn't start the New American Conservative Party (NACaP) tomorrow, she is missing out on a HUGE opportunity. There are a bazillion reasonable conservatives out there who would love to dissociate their name and vision of the future from the Republican party of today.
Cheney was viewed as a rising star and was elected chair of the House Republican Conference, the third-highest leadership position in the House Republican Caucus, in 2018. She embraced Trump's rhetorical style, trashing the Democratic Party with a stream of invective. "They’ve become the party of anti-Semitism; they’ve become the party of infanticide; they’ve become the party of socialism," Cheney said in 2019 interview on Meet The Press. I know you know the source of that. There's this naive idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend but get a grip, dawg. All Cheneys are chaotic evil. If you didn't tap out in 2016, and if you aren't frickin' to the left of Romney by now, the blood is on your hands.n the first two years of Trump's presidency, Cheney supported Trump's position on 95.8% of her votes. In the last two years, Cheney supported Trump's position 92.8% of the time. That's a higher level of support than Trump received over the same time period from Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), who Trump later selected as his Chief of Staff.
Supposedly Miles Taylor is leading the effort, but he's not a big enough name to make any hay. They need some brand recognition. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/politics/republicans-third-party-trump.html The problem is that the "True Conservatives" were always just policy cover for the stuff that Trump told everyone it's ok to do and feel, so I'm not sure how much support the new party will garner among the plebes.
I don't think this is a "true conservatives" thing any more. It's the philosophical right that has no voice any more. The small government, low regulation, low taxes, push the decision-making away from DC and give it back to the States, and fiscal responsibility "small-c conservatives" who have nobody speaking their language anymore. My Mom is one of these. She's not a Trump acolyte or even a Reaganite. She's just a white upper middle class woman who feels people shouldn't be coddled, and budgets should be balanced, and that we tend to throw money and regulations at problems, rather than community/social programs to address things at the grassroots. Which has always been the central breakpoint between classical liberals and conservatives: Liberals want the State to help those in need, and Conservatives want the local community/religion to do it. Nowadays there's the AOC wing and the Q wing, and nothing effectively in the middle. ANYONE that steps into that gap and waves their flag is going to draw a lot of fed-up people to their cause.
Agreed. Unfortunately a big part of our problem is that we've transformed ourselves via the Big Sort into two one party systems, instead of a true two party system. And one party systems always vie for the extremes to the point that they eat their own. Many people who've not studied up on the Soviet Union aren't aware that Show Trials were reserved exclusively for Party members. This was Lynn Cheney's show trial. Democrats had one in the form of Al Franken, lest we think the left is immune to such nonsense.
"Well, my voters are wrong about the integrity of the 2020 election, so I will represent and (whoopsie!) reinforce their idiocy." Imagine telling yourself that. What a fucking joke. Still, I refuse to pretend like Liz Cheney is some newly-found ally. We're on the same side of a line she drew in the sand, but she's wayyyyyyy down the beach. Boohoo, Liz. The GOP will continue to consciously undermine elections. It's their #1 most coherent policy. Everything else is an afterthought to retaining power. Many of the pesky laws that stood in their way to retaining the presidency are being re-litigated to lay the groundwork for a "technically legal" power grab by the minority party in 2024. The fact that it's either several million votes (popular vote) or only a few tens of thousands of votes (electoral college) deciding the presidency shows that we definitely need some election reform. Trump's GOP currently makes a push in the opposite direction of proportional representation. Fuck fascism.