Thanks for mentioning Maureen Dowd’s column. I missed it originally and went back after your note. I think that she is right on in her comments. I also agree with you in several of your comments that we should treat Liz Cheney’s role in challenging the ‘Big Lie’ not as one that is a fight for democracy but rather as a fight for power in …
Thanks for mentioning Maureen Dowd’s column. I missed it originally and went back after your note. I think that she is right on in her comments. I also agree with you in several of your comments that we should treat Liz Cheney’s role in challenging the ‘Big Lie’ not as one that is a fight for democracy but rather as a fight for power in the current Republican Party. As Dowd notes the makings for the ‘Big Lie’ were established for the rush up to the Iraq war in 2003 when Cheney’s dad pushed his own big lie with the intel manufactured to support Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction. The Cheney’s are neoliberals with a strong penchant for an all-powerful executive branch that favors authoritarianism rather than democracy. This is clearly a power struggle between two factions within the Republican Party neither of which is in favor of democracy. Both will march under the tune of the Koch donor oligarch network.
Thanks for mentioning Maureen Dowd’s column. I missed it originally and went back after your note. I think that she is right on in her comments. I also agree with you in several of your comments that we should treat Liz Cheney’s role in challenging the ‘Big Lie’ not as one that is a fight for democracy but rather as a fight for power in the current Republican Party. As Dowd notes the makings for the ‘Big Lie’ were established for the rush up to the Iraq war in 2003 when Cheney’s dad pushed his own big lie with the intel manufactured to support Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction. The Cheney’s are neoliberals with a strong penchant for an all-powerful executive branch that favors authoritarianism rather than democracy. This is clearly a power struggle between two factions within the Republican Party neither of which is in favor of democracy. Both will march under the tune of the Koch donor oligarch network.