For the sin of speaking the truth about the 2020 election, Liz Cheney has lost everything. Here's why she won't win a presidential campaign either.
Cheney not only will be out of sync with the whole party on one of the most salient political questions of the day on the right; she will be associated with betraying the party through her participation in the House Jan. 6 panel.
This isn’t to say there is no value in a potential presidential bid. A campaign could at least help shape media narratives about splits in the Republican Party and help register intra-GOP objections to Trump that express some of the concerns of the small share of moderates remaining in the party.
Now, if Cheney were considering a third-party general election run if Trump won the nomination, in a bid to siphon off the votes of moderate Republicans and boost the Democrats, she would be a much sharper thorn in Trump’s side. But effective third parties always carry risks forthe major parties, since people from across the political spectrum often use third parties to lodge protests against the offerings of the two-party system.
All things considered, a presidential run would be a relatively minor form of activism. There are far more important tools that need to be used to defend against the possibility of Trump’s return — namely, a coalition on the left that can effectively mount a response to another potential brush with a white nationalist and authoritarian demagogue. And as my colleague
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