Liz Cheney has a real chance to stop Donald Trump and it's not by running for president, Ja'han Jones writes. If Cheney is as as dedicated to democracy as she claims, there's only one real path for her to take. - The ReidOut Blog
that Trump's lies about the 2020 election paved the way for Republicans in state legislatures to pass voter suppression measures. By now, Cheney surely knows that the GOP’s future electoral prospects depend on suppressing votes.Bolstering voter protections for people Trump and the GOP want to deny is the best way to combat the right's authoritarian power grab.
“It has been said that the long arc of history bends toward justice and freedom,” Cheney said. “That’s true, but only if we make it bend.” Something like that has been said, in fact — by former President Barack Obama. Refashioning a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. in 2013, Obama , “The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.” He delivered those remarks to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington — which focused heavily on the right to vote.At the heart of the attack on Jan. 6 is a willingness to embrace dangerous conspiracies that attack the very core premise of our nation: that lawful elections, reviewed by the courts when necessary and certified by the states and Electoral College, determine who serves as president.
The GOP’s anti-American attacks on elections aren’t merely about the presidential. They’re far-reaching, affecting politics on all levels. If Cheney wants to be on the"right" side of history, she’ll need to take off the blinders she’s been wearing and see that the conservative assault on democracy goes beyond Trump and Jan. 6.
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