The former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney “hopes to be able to rebuild” the Republican party after Donald Trump leaves the political stage. Mitt Romney, the retiring Utah senator and former presidential nominee, reportedly hopes so too.
Among other prominent Republicans who refuse to bow the knee, the former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is running for a US Senate seat in a party led by Trump but insists he can be part of a post-Trump GOP.
Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chair turned MSNBC host, advocated more dramatic action: “We have to blow this crazy-ass party up and have it regain its senses, or something else will be born out of it. There are only two options here. Hogan will be a key player in whatever happens. Liz Cheney, [former congressmen] Adam Kinzinger and Joe Walsh – all of us who have been pushed aside and fortunately were not infected with Maga, we will have something to say about what happens on 6 November.”
That’s because the question is not only entirely unrelated to the task at hand, it is a thought-terminating cliché that I refuse to take seriously.
The concept of “election spoilers” is designed to keep people from engaging with politics that lie outside the range of acceptable discourse dictated by the two-party system.
Now that anti-genocide politics is no longer acceptable to the two party system, it’s long past time to stop taking the establishment seriously when it threatens you to support it or else.
So then maybe it’s “always has been”. ;-)