How GOP rage at Liz Cheney makes a future stolen election more likely

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
The @Liz_Cheney ouster is about more than loyalty to Trump. It shows the GOP effectively liberating itself to overturn future elections whose outcomes Republicans hate, by any means necessary. Note that these same House Rs may be in control on Jan 6, 2025:

Opinion | How GOP rage at Liz Cheney makes a future stolen election more likely
Republicans appear to be unshackling themselves from any obligation toward democracy.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/05/liz-cheney-ouster-gop-leadership-future-stolen-election/

Rep. Liz Cheney’s fate appears sealed: Republicans are set to oust the Wyoming Republican as the No. 3 in the House GOP leadership, and will most likely replace her with Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, whose loyalty to Donald Trump remains unquestioned.

This is being widely depicted as a battle over the past, and over Trump. Most accounts portray it as a sign that in today’s GOP, fealty to the former president is a bedrock requirement, denouncing his lies about 2020 has become unacceptable, and telling the truth about the Jan. 6 insurrection is disqualifying.

All that is true, but the forward-looking dimension to this story is getting lost. What also seems unavoidably at stake is that the GOP appears to be plunging headlong into a level of full-blown hostility to democracy that has deeply unsettling future ramifications.

Loyalty to Trump and his lies isn’t the most important thing Republicans are asserting here. Instead, Republicans may be unshackling themselves from any obligation to acquiesce to future presidential election outcomes they don’t like — that is, liberating themselves to overturn those outcomes by any means necessary.

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[gab13by13]

1. They may be in control on 2023.

[jimfields33]

2. Still won't be able to a thing with president Biden in charge.

Thank God for that.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. It's up to us to make sure that doesn't happen.

We're not helpless victims here. They can be defeated. We're smarter than them and have more people on our side.

[gab13by13]

5. Having more people doesn't always work in the House.

I just voted by mail, in Pa. and Democrats always cast more votes than Republicans and we have steadily lost Representatives.

[Elessar Zappa]

6. We just do what we can.

It's not impossible to keep the House. Yes, they have an advantage due to gerrymandering and voter suppression. We just have to try our best, get friends out to vote and see what happens. I'm not gonna cede anything to the fascists.

[RKP5637]

3. More and more it becomes even more evident the goal of the GOP is to overthrow the US democracy

and government while posing as a political party!!! They have absolutely no interest in governing the US or the people other than for power and financial benefits for themselves. I often wonder how many decent republicans are left, if any. Any being in that party today are extremely deceitful and gullible individuals in my opinion.

[dalton99a]

7. It is the Trump Party

and has been since 2016