Cheney and Trump

 Liz Cheney is right, and Donald Trump is wrong. I hope she wins her primary election. She deserves to, but I doubt she will. Her father made some good comments about Trump in that ad for her, though he went a little too far in calling Trump the worst internal threat to the country in 246 years. The names Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee come to mind. Still Trump is bad enough, and if you leave the Confederates out of it, Mr. Cheney is probably right.

I do not know what is wrong with Republicans who are still attached to Trump. He is an arrogant, ignorant, blustering, demagogic scoundrel, and he advertises the fact. Most Republicans say they are conservatives. He is not a conservative as the term usually has been understood. He is not committed to limited government, restraint on executive power, freer trade, traditional mores, or upholding the Constitution. He talked big on national defense, but with people now worried about the readiness of the armed forces, one has to wonder how much he accomplished. He shows no more respect for the citizens of the country or their intelligence than any other continually lying politician. Contrary to his bragging, he has not been a big winner in politics. He barely beat the most unlikable major party candidate in decades in 2016, led his party to a defeat in 2018, and lost to a dull, mentally impaired, political hack in 2020. And then he made himself an enemy of the republic by criminally trying to remain in power by staging an illegal and unconstitutional coup with his order to Mike Pence to overturn the election.

I do not see how they can stick with him. I hope they quit. Opponents of the leftists, whether conservative, liberal, libertarian, or whatever, can ignore him and support Republicans in the coming election, but that will be impossible in the presidential election if he gets the nomination in 2024. Then what?