Cheney summed it up

[Septua]

She said she took an oath, will live by it and won't lie for political gain. If that isn't what voters want, they should vote for someone else.

Personally, I believe the majority of the people in this country prefer elected officials like Cheney. And if that is what we want, the Republicans are going to have to vote Democratic for a few election cycles.

[madaboutharry]

1. It is difficult to understand how the people of Wyoming

would vote for any of those rodeo clowns over Liz Cheney.

[Silent3]

2. It was difficult for me to understand anyone voting for Trump, and yet many did

I've just had to learn to accept the fact the what I see as huge problems, like ignorance and petulance and racism and bullying and cruelty, are features, not flaws, to a scary number of American voters.

In many Republican primaries, it's the biggest asshole who wins.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Opinion Liz Cheney's harsh new attack on Trump is a plea for GOP sanity

Cheney is doing the right thing even if this means that she will lose her primary

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/01/liz-cheney-attack-trump-jan-6-gop-sanity/

Cheney’s indictment of the former president amounts to one of the most consequential and effective public performances in recent U.S. history. Meanwhile, the Wyoming Republican is fighting for her political life against a challenger who epitomizes gutter Trumpism at its absolute worst.

Cheney amplified her case against Trump at a primary debate on Thursday night. Cheney heaped scorn on her leading challenger, Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, slamming her for fealty to Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and urging GOP voters to leave Trump behind once and for all.

Cheney will likely lose her primary, perhaps by enormous margins. But her performance in the primary — along with her speech this week casting Trump as a “domestic threat” — represent something forward-looking, a plea to the Republican Party to break with Trump’s madness for the sake of the country and its future.....

“I will never violate my oath of office, and if you’re looking for somebody who will, then you need to vote for somebody else on this stage,” continued Cheney, who’s also the vice chair of the House select committee on Jan. 6......

How far down the path to democratic instability this will take us remains to be seen. Cheney plainly believes — and this view is alarmingly shared by experts in democratic breakdown — that unless Republicans execute a fundamental turnaround, there may not be any route back.

[rubbersole]

4. Sanity.

That bird flew in 2000.

[Irish_Dem]

5. I never thought people living in a democracy would vote to end democracy.

And I am a political cynic.