Bye Bye Liz (Not?)

Two nights ago, Liz Cheney did something that everyone expected her to do.  She lost the Wyoming U.S. House primary. As her father might put it, big time.

Cheney lost to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman by about 37 percentage points for the crime of telling the truth about Trump's insistence that he won the 2020 presidential election.  Most of the House Republicans who voted to impeach him for January 6 are already on their way out, but Liz Cheney's loss was like a cherry on the top of Trump's ice cream sundae, given her service on the January 6 select committee as its vice chair.

About two out of every three Republicans nominated for office this year are election deniers, people who believe that Joe Biden is an illegitimate President.  As Trump might say, they're getting ready to win their elections in November, and frankly, many of them will win their elections.  They can't all lose, and those who win elections for secretary of state or governor in swing states could be the ones who help put Trump back into power in January 2025.    

Except for one thing: Liz Cheney plans to keep fighting Trump once her third and final term as Wyoming's at-large U.S. Representative is done.  In the meantime, she will continue to do her work on the January 6 select committee, and she plans to build up a political action committee as a private citizen.  She will continue to work tirelessly to make sure that Trump does not get back into the Presidency - and maybe even run for President herself in 2024 as a way of stopping him.

"We're facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat," Cheney said in an interview with CBS News. "And those of us across the board - Republicans, Democrats and independents who believe deeply in freedom and who care about the Constitution and the future of the country - have an obligation to put that above party."

She has her work cut out for her.  But she might actually pull it off.