Matt Lewis: Ted Cruz and Dick Cheney's Stupid Trump Tricks

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-and-dick-cheneys-stupid-trump-tricks?ref=home

Ted Cruz and Dick Cheney’s Stupid Trump Tricks
ROLL OVER OR GET OUT
You can’t be your own person and be acceptable to Trump. Trump (and now, Trumpism) demands everything. You’re all in or you’re out.
Matt Lewis, Senior Columnist
Updated Jan. 08, 2022 4:09AM ET / Published Jan. 07, 2022 11:32PM ET

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This brings us to Cheney, a tough-as-nails GOP hardliner who probably never imagined his daughter would be the lone Republican to attend such a solemn ceremony, much less that one of his rare public appearances these days would involve shaking hands with Pelosi.

I don’t want to suggest that this act of civility was on par with Cruz’s act of self-flagellation. But it’s probably not how Cheney—once the formidable “Darth Vader” of the GOP—imagined he would spend his golden years. Instead of riding off into the sunset as a celebrated Republican conqueror, Cheney now finds himself cast as an establishment RINO. .

Of course, the definition of “RINO” has changed. Today, if you are a Republican, you are defined by your loyalty to Trump. This is the litmus test, and part of demonstrating this loyalty is insisting that he won the 2020 election and downplaying what happened on Jan. 6 (the fact that they cannot get their act together on the precise talking point for that infamous date is beside the point). We are all still dancing to the tune Trump keeps cranking out.

This is Trump’s party, just as it was George W. Bush and Richard Cheney’s party not that long ago. But in this aspect of the story, there is a glimmer of hope.

A decade ago, Ted Cruz (and the rest of the Republicans) would have both respected and feared Cheney. If Cheney told them to jump, they would have asked, “How high?” And now, a decade later, Cheney is an aging statesman who is (at best) irrelevant to the Republican Party he once dominated.

If we’re lucky, Donald Trump will end up in that same boat. Maybe we will get lucky, and it will capsize with him in it.

[Walleye]

1. Maybe they should now call them TRINOs

[Me.]

2. Sometimes These Writers Try To Be Too Clever By Half

I disagree with his description of Cheney standing for the Constitution...found it too glib

[agingdem]

4. Dick Cheney and the Constitution..get real!

The guy was all for an imperial presidency..

[Me.]

5. Certainly Was

But he was standing there...neither statement is false

[czarjak]

3. Matt Lewis was all-in back in the day too! F-him2.

[Casady1]

6. I have been trolling Matt Lewis for months

He published an article praising Mc Turtle by saying he made a hard vote against other republicans on Apartheid. I said McConnell was full of s__t and when it came to votes that matter on race he was a Confederate. His Website is https://www.mattklewis.com/

You can troll him to. It is great fun.