WAPO OP ED: Lindsey Graham's shocking admission about Trump blows up a big GOP argument

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/lindsey-graham-fox-news-2022-midterms/

(Demonstrates the convoluted GOP path back to winning)

Opinion by Greg Sargent Columnist May 7, 2021 at 10:02 a.m. EDT

What Lindsey Graham revealed
First, it exposes the hollowness of the Trumpist economic populist nationalism Graham himself references. A handful of Republicans are crafting a “conservative populism” designed to keep alive this Trumpist appeal to the working class.

Second, Graham’s comments are strikingly revealing about the GOP midterm playbook. The New York Times reports that as part of this strategy, Republicans are mostly avoiding talking about President Biden’s covid-19 relief bill and plans for big infrastructure investments, because they’re popular.

But, as the Times notes, this effort to win back suburbanites will be badly complicated by the need to energize the large numbers of GOP voters who remain “fiercely loyal” to Trump and “want the party to represent his values.” The blowup over Cheney has demonstrated that this is a “difficult balance to achieve.”

Why Liz Cheney is such a problem
But why might Cheney be complicating this strategy? Because it reveals the radicalization of the Republican Party, in tandem with the GOP base’s continued thraldom to Trump, exactly the figure who drove away those suburbanites in the first place.

From me: It's choice time: Their voters like Biden's initiatives, so, they have to find someone else to vilify: Is it the squishy middle voters who elected Biden, or the hard-core Qanon insurrectionist conspiracy theorists? Wither way, they're screwed.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. What crazy times......

when you care about Darth Cheney's daughter vs. how Lindsey's handling his latest 'attack of the vapors!'

So, who do you root for?

I'm thinking something 'terminal' for both would be a satisfactory outcome.....

[Caliman73]

2. Your last sentence the correct response.

I am glad that Cheney is standing up to the lie that is Trump, but that is the ONLY good thing about her and it is not enough.

Cheney, like her father, still represent horrific ideas about how American society should be structured. If left to their own devices, the Republican Party would destroy itself trying to thread the needle between the racist populism that Trump espouses and their desire to continue serving the needs of the ultra rich. Those things are ultimately incompatible. The ultra wealthy hate the poor White racists almost as much as they hate people of color. They've just been working off of the centuries old playbook of using poor Whites as muscle, while paying lip service to their plight. The poor Whites want a bigger seat at the table than the ultra rich are willing to give them.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. They truly don't see where they are going.......

They are so driven by "Trumpism" that they are throwing away anybody and everybody that does not drink the Kool-Aid!
I just saw that Liz voted somewhere between 88% to 90% for any and all 'Trump' programs in her time in Congress.
HOW can you take a supporter like that and kick them to the curb?
But that, too, is part of 'Trumpism' - it's not "What have you done for me?" - it's "What have you done for me lately?"

They ARE going to go down - I'm just tired of waiting for it to happen!