Liz Cheney is the latest casualty of conservatism's epistemic collapse

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Matthew Sheffield
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Disinformation-beat journalists often document how hardcore Trump supporters live in a different media world.

But the ex-president's many lies didn't create this world.

He inherited it from the Christian fundamentalism that undergirds US conservatism:

Liz Cheney is the latest casualty of conservatism’s epistemic collapse
The intellectual collapse of Christian fundamentalism has caused American conservatives to believe that truth is entirely the product of social power
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11:53 AM · May 14, 2021

https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/05/liz-cheney-epistemic-collapse-conservatism


Liz Cheney won’t be the last casualty of conservatism’s epistemic collapse

The intellectual destruction of Christian fundamentalism has caused the American right to believe that truth is entirely the product of social power

On Wednesday, House Republicans formally voted to strip Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney of her leadership position. The outcome was never in doubt since Cheney had aroused intense anger from Donald Trump and his supporters over her refusal to countenance his numerous lies about losing the 2020 presidential election and his incitement of the violent coup at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Her resistance provoked massive outcry from the GOP voter base and after resisting an earlier attempt to remove her, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the GOP minority leader, called for her dismissal.

Cheney’s removal from leadership has been rightfully interpreted by many political observers as a signal that fealty to Trump matters more in today’s Republican Party than a commitment to rolling back federal spending and other traditional GOP policy goals. Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent has also correctly noted that the GOP outcry to punish Cheney is a dangerous indicator that Republicans will refuse to acknowledge future elections won by Democrats—and that their voters will support such authoritarianism since they strongly back current GOP efforts to make voting harder and to hand over election certification powers to partisan state legislators.

On the eve of the Capitol insurrection, the New York Times characterized this tactic as a “last ditch” effort by Trump. Now however, Republican controlled states like Arizona are attempting to make it their plan for the future.

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[kentuck]

1. There is only one way to fight it.

Repetition of the truth, over and over.

Democrats should follow the tailwind of Liz Cheney and repeat over and over every day how the Republicans are lying and how FOX and right-wing media are covering up for them.

They want people to not believe what they saw with their own eyes. If they are good Republicans, they will ignore the Big Lie and the January 6th Insurrection. They want people to believe that the election was stolen.

Democrats must fight false propaganda with true propaganda - like fighting fire with fire.

And they must believe that truth will prevail.

[IcyPeas]

2. agreed, Dems have to keep repeating it... in the news, on twitter, on facebook. EVERYWHERE

[bullimiami]

3. the very vocal and ignorant minority is piloting the ship.

remains to be seen how many will remain for the voyage further into insanity.

[agingdem]

4. she's not a victim or a casualty

she's an enabler...she now gets to live in the world she created...I hope it hurts!!