Liz Cheney's damning hypocrisy
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During a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Cheney said, “We need to work against discrimination of all kinds in our country, in our state.” She said that she is “not ready to cede [the Republican Party] to the voices of extremism, to the voices of antisemitism, and the voices of racism.”
Yet Cheney voted against a bill to protect democracy from GOP racism and extremism.
Last month, every Republican voted no on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Named for the late Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death in 1965 while marching in Selma, Ala., for voting rights, the bill seeks to fully restore critical sections of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013.
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Cheney may not be beholden to Donald Trump or his Big Lie that a majority of Republicans believe about an election Trump lost by more than 7 million votes. But in her failure to protect voting rights, she boosted every voter suppression bill and law that lie has spawned. She is complicit in Trump and the GOP’s efforts to unravel the core tenet of our democracy.
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