• gregorum
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    8 months ago

    who’s trading anything? is there some timeline where she’s running for president? because she’s not in this timeline. in fact, she’s not running for any office at all.

    this isn’t some zero-sum game where liz cheney fighting against Trump in any way diminishes us fighting him. we don’t even need to ally ourselves with her for her to fight Trump-- she’s doing it all on her own and isn’t even asking for anyone’s allyship. all that anyone is saying is that her doing that - fighting Trump - is a good and rational act. you, conversely, have yet to present any sort of rational counterargument…

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      8 months ago

      There is a concerted effort out there by hard core right wing partisans to prevent an alliance between Democratic voters and true-believing Republicans who actually could agree with progressive or socialist policy positions. Liz Cheney isn’t in office, she’s being smeared here now because the fascist right can’t afford any high profile defections for captured voters to find political refuge with.