Liz Cheney’s Thought Crime
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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On Wednesday morning, Representative Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, was ousted from her position as the House Republican Conference chair. Cheney was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th Capitol insurrection, and her expulsion from the chair position is seen as a move by the Republican leadership to unify the Party behind the former President. Susan B. Glasser joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Trump’s continued stranglehold over the G.O.P. and what to expect from the immediate future of both parties.
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| 1:17.2 | It's Thursday, May 13th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.8 | We must go forward based on truth. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution. |
| 1:31.3 | And going forward, the nation needs it. The nation needs a strong Republican Party. |
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