Clarence Page: Liz Cheney's GOP hasn't lost its way, just changed its ways.

Aug 21, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

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  •   Conservative
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"Populism, put simply, is less a party than a political stance or sentiment rallying in support of the people against powerful elites, whether on the right or the left, MAGA or Black Lives Matter, Boogaloo Boys or antifa."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"It's MAGA populist, dominated by Trump and his Make America Great Again movement, a slogan borrowed from Reagan's 1980 campaign slogan Let's Make America Great Again."
Positive
24% Conservative
"It's MAGA populist, dominated by Trump and his Make America Great Again movement, a slogan borrowed from Reagan's 1980 campaign slogan Let's Make America Great Again."
Positive
24% Conservative
"That's why I look forward to the return of Cheney and Kinzinger to America's airwaves in September as the new season of the Jan. 6 committee hearings open."
Positive
10% Conservative
"His newly signed Inflation Reduction Act, along with falling gas prices, gives the party something to sell in this year's midterm campaigns as Biden's approvals wobble."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"On the Republican side, polls that show half of Republican voters want to move on from Trump to alternatives have been upstaged by another surprise: The FBI's search of his Florida estate for presidential documents, some of them classified, that he failed to return as promised to the National Archives."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"In another era, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney would have had the conservative voting record, track record and eloquence that her party would have championed."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Both parties are asking that question amid others, such as Democrats' questions as to whether Biden should run again."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"When U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney told an interviewer in the closing days of her reelection campaign that she believed her Republican Party was very sick and may not be able to recover in the near future, she probably knew she was about to lose."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Worse in the eyes of today's GOP faithful, she joined Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger as the only other Republican on the Jan. 6 House select committee to investigate the 2021 attack on the Capitol."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Conservative friends advise me to back off my scolding of Republicans for the questionable choices they have made in defending Trump, since it will only make them lock arms even tighter."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"and I don't see Trump's big election lies as good for our nation's future."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"After easily wiing three straight elections to the House, the Wyoming Republican resoundingly lost this primary to Harriet Hageman, an attorney who raised and spent more campaign funds than Cheney but was endorsed by Donald Trump."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"After easily wiing three straight elections to the House, the Wyoming Republican resoundingly lost this primary to Harriet Hageman, an attorney who raised and spent more campaign funds than Cheney but was endorsed by Donald Trump."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"By then, Cheney was stripped of her House leadership position, expelled by her state's GOP and essentially rendered a nonperson in party circles for having the audacity to stand up for American democracy against Trump's creeping autocracy, as revealed by testimony in the Jan. 6 committee hearings."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"By then, Cheney was stripped of her House leadership position, expelled by her state's GOP and essentially rendered a nonperson in party circles for having the audacity to stand up for American democracy against Trump's creeping autocracy, as revealed by testimony in the Jan. 6 committee hearings."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Sure, I'm confident that most Republicans don't believe all the conspiracy-minded talk about Biden's supposedly stolen election."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"She not only voted to impeach Trump but, unlike Hageman, also refused to support Trump's reckless insistence that the 2020 election was rigged."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"She not only voted to impeach Trump but, unlike Hageman, also refused to support Trump's reckless insistence that the 2020 election was rigged."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"It was just the sort of controversy around which Trump and his supporters could immediately lock arms, unify and claim presidential harassment and the like, putting aside whatever misgivings some might have about why Trump, once again, was defying norms and precedents observed by previous presidents."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"It was just the sort of controversy around which Trump and his supporters could immediately lock arms, unify and claim presidential harassment and the like, putting aside whatever misgivings some might have about why Trump, once again, was defying norms and precedents observed by previous presidents."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"After decades of internal struggles between pragmatic moderates and staunch hard-liners, today's GOP is not just conservative in the model of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"After decades of internal struggles between pragmatic moderates and staunch hard-liners, today's GOP is not just conservative in the model of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"With Trump leading every Republican preference poll, it's easy to see how Cheney became a pariah in her own party for turning against him, despite having voted with Trump 93"
Negative
-30% Liberal
"With Trump leading every Republican preference poll, it's easy to see how Cheney became a pariah in her own party for turning against him, despite having voted with Trump 93"
Negative
-30% Liberal
"With Trump leading every Republican preference poll, it's easy to see how Cheney became a pariah in her own party for turning against him, despite having voted with Trump 93"
Negative
-30% Liberal
"With Trump leading every Republican preference poll, it's easy to see how Cheney became a pariah in her own party for turning against him, despite having voted with Trump 93"
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% :Populism, put simply, is less a party than a political stance or sentiment rallying in support of "the people" against powerful "elites," whether on the right or the left, MAGA or Black Lives Matter, Boogaloo Boys or antifa.

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