Opinion | I have bad news for the progressives currently beguiled by Liz Cheney

Dec 06, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -78% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

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"What kind of legislation would Cheney be supporting if some alt-timeline, majority-liberal Supreme Court held sway and Roe was still the law of the land?"
Negative
-6% Liberal
"So I guess my question is would Liz Cheney be the media darling"
Positive
28% Conservative
"Cheney's new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, has become an immediate bestseller based on its promise to bring even more receipts to the Trump indictment party."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Liz Cheney is, with respect to policy, a typical Republican."
Positive
12% Conservative
"But in respect to everything else, she's a Cheney: assured of her place in the political and economic firmament for as long as America exists -- and maybe even afterward."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Cheney's political transformation isn't, in fact, very transformative."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Our next president must be committed to restoring America's power and strength, she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, wrote in Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America."
Positive
0% Conservative
"But then he did something rare and almost singular in that company: He also re-examined all the other beliefs that had kept him in the party that nominated Trump."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Opposition research is, as I said, part of the supposed value of Cheney's book."
Positive
0% Conservative
"What kind of legislation would Cheney be supporting if some alt-timeline, majority-liberal Supreme Court held sway and Roe was still the law of the land?"
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-6% Liberal
"Liberals become enthralled with characters like Liz Cheney because we want to know how it was done and what we can do to make it happen again."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"I think what liberals are truly hoping to find in Cheney's tome is more abstract: the key to repeating the miracle of her supposed rebirth."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"I want things to never get so bad that someone like Cheney changes her mind."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"And that, as a reminder, would mean replacing Trump with a Republican who has consistently confirmed her commitment to restricting bodily autonomy and admits that climate change is happening but says there are real questions about why and what's causing it."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Liz's eventual recognition that she was wrong to oppose gay marriage came months after she lost her re-election primary in 2021, and after the end of her career in this version of Republican Party."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"That ideological genealogy doesn't make Cheney responsible for Jan. 6."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Her position as a Cheney also means the risks she took in opposing Trump remain minimal compared to those for anyone who works for a living or whose political career had some other starting point besides working for her father's successful (if not popularly elected) White House campaign."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Her position as a Cheney also means the risks she took in opposing Trump remain minimal compared to those for anyone who works for a living or whose political career had some other starting point besides working for her father's successful (if not popularly elected) White House campaign."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"If we were living through Hillary Clinton's second term, would Mary Cheney still be waiting for her apology?"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"On some level, I want to prevent conversions like Cheney's, not create more of them."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"I have bad news for the progressives currently beguiled by Liz Cheney's deft skewering of her erstwhile Republican colleagues: She is not going to love you back."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Cheney shows no sign of such expansive reconsiderations."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Former Wall Street Journal columnist Max Boot became a Never Trumper along with a host of other neocons when Trump's terrible ambitions became clear."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Her call to arms is narrow-cast in the extreme: defeat Trump."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Her message to anyone who has ever knitted a pussy hat hits right in the feels: Donald Trump is a grave threat to American democracy, a man willing to torch the constitution, and thus [h]e has to be defeated, and people can't be bystanders."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Others have illustrated the straight line that coects the rabid anti-Obama xenophobia and racism of the tea party movement -- a movement Cheney embraced -- and the mob that forced its way into the Capitol on Jan. 6."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"According to her book, Cheney was plenty aware of Trump's election conspiracy perfidy and the escalating plans for a coup."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"According to her book, Cheney was plenty aware of Trump's election conspiracy perfidy and the escalating plans for a coup."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"What pushed Liz Cheney to outraged opposition were the specific and horrific events of Jan. 6."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"We know even more about the awfulness of Trump Republicans."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Even Cheney, who voted for Trump in his first run, clearly never liked the guy, calling his statements about women appalling in 2016 and his foreign policy decisions disastrous two years later."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Even Cheney, who voted for Trump in his first run, clearly never liked the guy, calling his statements about women appalling in 2016 and his foreign policy decisions disastrous two years later."
Negative
-52% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : What kind of legislation would Cheney be supporting if some alt-timeline, majority-liberal Supreme Court held sway and Roe was still the law of the land?

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