Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney said she believes a GOP majority in the House in 2025 would present a “threat” to the country.
“I believe very strongly in those principles and ideals that have defined the Republican Party, but the Republican Party of today has made a choice and they haven’t chosen the Constitution. And so I do think it presents a threat if the Republicans are in the majority in January 2025,” Cheney said in an interview that aired on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Cheney, who represented Wyoming in Congress from 2017 to 2023, said current House Speaker Mike Johnson was “absolutely” a collaborator in the effort to overthrow the 2020 election and he should not be speaker in 2025.
I can’t remember a time when they weren’t inexorably marching toward this result though. Every step has been away from both progress and democracy.
I do agree that the label itself has changed but I don’t believe that what we, including Cheney, are talking about.
As far as I can tell, this march began in reaction to the voting rights act, made into law by Northern Democrats in the 60s.
Southern Democrats aka Dixiecrats consequently left their party for the GOP which became the single new home for reactionary, regressive ideologies.
This single minded movement to roll back progress has been underway for almost 60 years now.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/5/14/22434869/southern-democrats-jim-crow-civil-rights-act-ted-cruz-for-people-act-letters