What Does All the GOP, Liz Cheney Chaos Mean For Democrats?

I can’t help wondering where the right wingers who agree with Liz Cheney’s stance on Donald Trump are going to go.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readMay 13, 2021
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Well, the ousting of Representative Liz Cheney from GOP leadership is now complete. The Wyoming congresswoman has officially lost her position as the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, all but confirming that in the fight between the old guard and the new pro-Trump right win populism, the old guard has lost and lost definitively. But of course, I’m sure I’m not alone in wondering what this turn for the Republican Party means for the Democrats, and how the way the party is almost certainly going to approach it is very different from what they should actually do.

To be clear, this is a prime opportunity for the Democratic Party. If they chose to do so, they could easily exploit this situation within the GOP, taking to the airwaves to remind the American people that this is yet another example of a party resorting to desperate, dangerous measures because they have nothing to offer voters. After all, there wasn’t a single Republican who was willing to come on board for the immensely popular Covid 19 relief bill was there?

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx