@axtremus said in A little bit closer?:
@mik said in A little bit closer?:
I heard a GOP someone or other on NPR yesterday describing the thinking on Cheney. Only 10% of Republicans share her thinking, so how can you continue to have leadership from someone who is out of step with 90% of the party? The best quote was 'A leader with no followers is a guy taking a walk'.
The GOP will head for Trump policies but not Trump.
That is false.
Rep. Stefanik, the person the GOP wants to replace Rep. Cheney with, voted less consistently with Trump on policy matters than Rep. Cheney. Stefanik even voted against Trump’s 2017 tax reform. Yet here we are, the GOP is going to replace Cheney (one who voted very consistently with Trump on policy matters) with Stefanik (one who voted less consistently with Trump on policy matters) — for one reason only: Cheney says out loud that she disagrees with Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was “stolen.” Stefanik embraces Trump’s “stolen election” narrative full throttle.
To the extent that you say only 10% of Republicans share Cheney’s thinking, that is true only if you limit the “thinking” to Trump’s “stolen election” narrative.
So the claim that the GOP is policy-driven is simply not true. By and large, they are personality driven, and that personality is Trump.
Says the life-long Republican.
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