When Liz Cheney, the single US House Representative for the state of Wyoming, was sacked as chair of the Republican party conference, there were broadly two views of what that signified, for her and for the Republican party. The more popular view by far was that her dismissal from the third most important post in the party had confirmed and strengthened Donald Trump as crucial to the future of the Republican cause and that her political career was pretty much over. The other view was that being down at this particular juncture did not mean she was out.
And the huge coverage – and speculation – her dismissal has attracted in the United States in the days since, even when she is being written off, would seem only to confirm this. For detractors and supporters alike, her removal from the Republican leadership line-up means something
Cheney’s ‘crime’ in the eyes of her fellow House Republicans was to have been a vociferous opponent of Trump’s claim he had won an election he lost.
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