{"id":1611979,"date":"2022-08-18T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611979"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:21:14","slug":"liz-cheneys-gop-is-dead-and-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheneys-gop-is-dead-and-buried\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney&#8217;s GOP Is Dead and Buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheneys-gop-is-dead-and-buried%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Republican Party is vastly different than it was before former President Donald Trump entered the White House. Today\u2019s political landscape doesn\u2019t seem to be changing any time soon.\n<\/p>\n<p>It seems clear Liz Cheney\u2019s GOP is gone, and a futile bid to become the party\u2019s 2024 presidential nominee isn\u2019t likely to revert the party to its pre-Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/mitt-romney-could-leave-the-gop\/\">Romney-esque slant<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Even if Cheney didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2022\/08\/16\/pat-lauber-democrat-switched-parties-for-liz-cheney-sot-ctn-camerota-vpx.cnn\">court Democrat voters<\/a> in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/16\/wyoming-alaska-primary-results-2022-00052216\">bid to win her primary election<\/a> this month, asking Democrats to switch party registration and vote for her on August 16, it\u2019s unlikely the Wyoming rep has any chance of stopping the radical transformation of the GOP and winning over America First voters. Donald Trump transformed the Republican Party into a movement that cares more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/07\/populists-and-progressives-agree-on-one-thing-a-restrained-u-s-foreign-policy\/\">populist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/07\/the-donald-trump-dilemma-victory-on-roe-disaster-on-jan-6\/\">conservative social ideals<\/a> than fiscal conservatism, and Cheney can\u2019t change that.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The GOP Is Populist Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s platform, should she decide to run in 2024, will undoubtedly focus on reversing the changes former President Donald Trump made to the party\u2019s platform. Among Cheney\u2019s many criticisms of Trump is her claim that the party\u2019s new populist economist approach constitutes \u201cMarxism.\u201d Cheney even compared Trump\u2019s politics to the Chinese Communist Party in 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump\u00a0<\/a>talk now, when you hear the language he\u2019s using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/557096-cheney-compares-trump-claims-to-chinese-communist-party-its-very-dangerous-and\/\">Cheney told The Axe Files podcast<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he says that our system doesn\u2019t work \u2026 when he suggests that it\u2019s, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it\u2019s failed\u00a0\u2014 those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us,\u201d\u00a0Cheney continued.\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Cheney \u2013 then the House Republican Conference Chair \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/05\/liz-cheney-derides-jim-banks-gop-working-class-memo-neo-marxist\/\">hit out at a memo<\/a> from Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks which stressed the importance of Republicans embracing issued that matter to working-class voters.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo, the Indiana Republican congressman described how former President Trump \u201cgave the Republican Party a political gift.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now the party supported by most working-class voters,\u201d he said. \u201cThe question is whether Republicans reject that gift or unwrap it and permanently become the Party of the Working Class.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Cheney didn\u2019t share the same enthusiasm for the GOP becoming the multi-racial, broad-church, working-class party that Trump envisioned, and hit back in an interview with Politico claiming the memo was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/05\/liz-cheney-battle-trumpworld-479021\">neo-Marxist<\/a>.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Raid Galvanized Support<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Before the FBI raided the home of former President Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, last week, he already enjoyed the loyal support of around half of the party\u2019s voting base. While some polls showed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/why-ron-desantis-could-run-for-president-in-2024-even-if-trump-does\/\">competing with Trump<\/a> as a hypothetical 2024 nominee, most analysts expected that the party nomination was Trump\u2019s for the taking \u2013 if he wanted it.\n<\/p>\n<p>After the raid, in which the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/we-asked-a-former-senior-fbi-official-what-the-trump-mara-a-lago-raid-means\/\">took boxes of presidential records<\/a> taken to Mar-a-Lago from the White House during the Trump presidency, Trump has galvanized his support within the party. Not only are registered Republicans throwing their weight behind the former president but so are many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/09\/trump-fbi-raid-2024-republican-president\">high-profile Republicans<\/a> who are rumored to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/richmond\/2022\/08\/09\/youngkin-denounces-fbi-raid-trump\">considering their own 2024 campaigns<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump also predicted that the investigation will help Republicans take back control of the House and Senate in November\u2019s midterm elections. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said that the GOP could \u201cwin back many additional seats\u201d in the House and Senate as a result of the \u201cstrong backlash\u201d over the raid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolls are showing that some lost Republican territory over the last number of weeks has been more than made up with the unannounced Break In by the FBI, which should never have happened!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-voting-surge-red-wave-gop-mar-lago-fbi-raid-1733904\">he said.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>A survey from the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action revealed how more than 80% of Republican voters are more likely to turn out and vote in November as a result of the operation, indicating growing support for the former president.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Progressive Democrats Need Opposition<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>If the Mar-a-Lago raid is as politically motivated as many Republicans expect it was, then Cheney\u2019s brand of conservatism doesn\u2019t counter the radical actions and ideology of many mainstream Democrats in a way that will satisfy GOP voters.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/liz-cheney-jan-6.html\">Gaining the support<\/a> of high-profile Democrats and Democrat voters is perhaps the worst possible thing for Cheney in this political environment. It doesn\u2019t just make it impossible for her to win the Republican Party\u2019s 2024 presidential nomination but rules her out as a serious leader within the party for as long as the Democrats continue their streak of taking extreme action to demonize Republicans and advance the most radical and progressive policies their party has ever proposed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The GOP of old is gone, and Cheney can\u2019t do anything about it unless the Democrats change their tune, too.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Buckby is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments\u2019 approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is vastly different than it was before former President Donald Trump entered the White House. Today\u2019s political landscape doesn\u2019t seem to be changing any time soon. 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