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Yes, Liz Cheney and the Anti-Trump GOP Believe in Stealing Elections Too
In the iconic scene from Casablanca when the casino at Rick’s café is being raided, the character Captain Renault, played by Claude Rains, famously declares, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” At the same moment, of course, the croupier is delivering his winnings to him.
This classic moment offers the perfect analogy to the current righteousness and indignation of anti-Trump Republicans who have rallied behind and indeed lionized Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) for taking a supposedly principled stand against those who former RNC chair and now Lincoln Project Republican Michael Steele has termed the “GOP apostates.”
Cheney, of course, has positioned herself as the great defender of democracy and the U.S. Constitution by refusing to validate the “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Obviously, as we saw last week when Senate Republicans voted down a proposal simply to commission an investigation of the insurrectionary assault on the Capitol last January 6, Cheney’s fellow congressional Republicans are shamelessly overt in defending efforts to destroy democracy in America.
Yet, let’s not be fooled and retreat into ignorance of even the most recent political history.
