The other big issue for Bauer and many on the religious right is support for Israel. Commission on International Religious Freedom and who says he was a frequent visitor to the White House during that administration, said that “Cheney is trying to blow up the Republican party” and then shifted and said it’s really about her animosity to populist anti-globalism. Bauer, whom Trump tapped to the unpaid U.S. When asked about this hypocrisy over the phone, Gary Bauer, the president of American Values who once sought the Republican presidential nomination, seemed to squirm. The Wyoming lawmaker has five children and one spouse, one-third as many as the Mar-a-Lago-based patron saint of these “family values” champions. Cheney talks of a “moral obligation to do everything to protect the sanctity of life.” She gets an A-plus from the anti-abortion Susan B. Several of the anti-Cheney petition signers represent “family values,” anti-abortion groups. Yet the Club for Growth is running ads in Wyoming blasting Cheney as a “Hillary Clinton Republican.” Three times I asked David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, about this absurd charge three times there was no answer. Consistent with her entire record in Congress, Cheney is critical of the Biden administration’s policies, citing a need to “ stop reckless spending, cut regulation and cut taxes.”

The Club for Growth favors sweeping tax cuts, less spending and deregulation. (Everyone should read Jane Mayer’s recent New Yorker profile of Ginni Thomas.)īut many represent organizations very influential in right-wing GOP circles. Some are fringe figures such as Jenna Ellis, one of Trump’s losing lawyers, and Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “That’s her only sin.”Ĭonsider the 63 conservatives who signed a petition calling for Cheney’s removal from the House Republican Conference most oppose her reelection. “Liz has become the Antichrist because she took on the ‘dear leader’ who’s down there ranting in Mar-a-Lago,” says former Wyoming Republican Sen.

Capitol to try to overturn an honest election. 6, 2021, insurrection, when a Trump-inspired mob violently attacked the U.S. One Republican who checks all these boxes is Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming.īut she’s a pariah to many conservative activists for one reason: She stood up to - and is demanding accountability from - Trump for spreading lies that the 2020 election was fraudulent and for his role in the Jan. Less consensus on foreign policy with an exception: strong support for Israel.Conservative on social issues, pro-life, anti-gun control, the self-styled party of “family values.”.Despite the contradictions - the national debt rose by more than $7.7 trillion during the Donald Trump years - this is a staple of GOP orthodoxy. A smaller federal government, rein in spending.There is universal opposition to Democrats’ proposals to boost taxes on upper income Americans. Lower taxes, the one glue that has held the party together for more than 40 years.Other than opposing Joe Biden, what do national Republicans stand for?

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