The struggle for the party’s future leadership erupted in a manic meeting of the House Republican Conference that ended when Cheney stood comfortably in a secret ballot – after refusing to apologize for acolytes the former president is angry after she chose the Constitution over Trump.
Greene had previously found out that the house’s Head of Minorities, Kevin McCarthy, would not suspend her committee assignments – a day after she was called into his office about her outspoken views and the offensive posts on social media. The Democratic-led House is expected to work where McCarthy failed in Thursday’s ground vote.
The fact that Cheney has been criticizing more of her colleagues than Greene in the past few days is considering how the traditional values of the GOP are being undermined and the great power that Trump is exercising. apply conspiracy theories.
For weeks, and especially after the Trump-inspired uprising on Jan. 6, the Republican Party has been locked in a long-running feud between those who swear allegiance to their leader as exiles, and some another who wants to move on from his anti-democratic tenure.
But Wednesday’s leadership pound on Greene, a Georgia first-term member, made this clear: Fearing a resurgence of Trump’s base, the GOP House is racing at the fastest pace toward the sidelines margins to prove millions of Americans live in another reality even if Cheney survives. suggesting that many GOP members do not privately believe the election was stolen.
Secret ballot
Cheney, who, until the Trump Rebellion, made a credible vote for the President except on some foreign policy issues, made a powerful statement by winning in a 145 to 61 vote to maintain a leadership role. Her impact was a sign that at least in private, there are some in the Republican Party of the House who are willing to stand up to terrorism – even though many of them do not have the confidence to do so in public. Her affair will encourage Washington’s orthodox conservatives – including many in the Senate who supported her, to think that the fight for the party’s future leadership is not optimistic.
But Cheney is still looking forward to a real primary challenge in her strong anti-Trump state in Wyoming.
And while the lawmakers would not have to tell their colleagues how they voted for Cheney to retain the chair of the House Conference, it would come as no surprise to some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters in the House. caucus publicly announcing their votes against it.
“This is clearly a moment to explain where the party is going and the party is choosing a hell of a path here,” Mary Katharine Ham, a prominent conservative writer and CNN political reporter, told Anderson Cooper at CNN before Cheney’s vote was fully announced.
“Kevin McCarthy and all those directors, the leadership, and everyone make sure that they are all talking and not about action, and they are just about doing business as usual. in Washington, “Greene said.
Deep results
In many ways, Wednesday’s meeting accelerated the direction the party has been following at least since many parts of its traditional base were dismantled by the establishment after years of war and the 2008 financial crisis. Trump on the issue of racism and rapid social change after Barack Obama’s presidency of the conspiratorial movement while his calm post-election behavior removed the latest restrictions to include terrorism.
This will have a huge impact on the country. There were always wide-ranging, and right, ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans. They are, if anything, expanding.
But this is not a new face in the enduring duel over health care or taxation. One of America’s leading parties, by relentlessly raising radicals like Greene, and threatening those like Cheney who accept the truth about Biden’s win last year, is abruptly refusing the sacred values of America’s own political system and its essential foundation for the goal of truth and truthfulness.
Weak leadership
Wednesday’s turmoil also revealed how McCarthy has joined the major forces within his caucus and in the country. A week after his pilgrimage made up for Trump after his harsh criticism of his role inciting the Capitol uprising, director Greene refused to remove him from his committee positions.
The director’s vision was driven around by a correspondent who has been in Washington for four weeks either revealing major political weakness or a Chinese enumeration. He leaves it to the House Democrats to convince Greene. While that makes McCarthy look useless, he also suggests that it has become better for him politically better to punish the heroic Democrats Make America Great Again than to have his caucus attacking their base.
But a failure to address Greene’s own case means that many of its members – especially those from more vulnerable areas – have a choice between voting in the full House to punish a Trump supporter or open themselves to allegations that they support it. astronomy.
McCarthy criticized Greene’s social media activity in a statement and accused Democrats of not meeting him halfway to finding a solution that would have redistributed Greene committee positions. (Critics have complained that she has been placed on an education committee, after claiming that a number of school murders were “false flag works.”
But he also said he accepted Greene’s word that she now recognized that her conduct as a member of Congress had to be at a higher level than when she was a private citizen.
“Voters decided she could come and serve,” McCarthy said after the meeting, adding that Greene had denied his own social media activity.
In her remarks to the Inspector, in which she repeatedly cited lies that Trump had won the election and insulted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Greene showed she had no incentive to his behavior reform.
“Now, we have Joe Biden in the White House and Nancy Pelosi at 80 million years as a speaker, and we have an Assembly that we no longer govern, with, you know, Mr. Big Turtle just above that, just losing gracefully, losing gracefully, “Greene said in the interview.
GOP seniors are ready to avoid moral choice
Local activists and other visitors to Washington such as Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger could argue that all will not be lost for the GOP and that the count will take several months, while memories of Trump’s presidency disappear.
But many of those state Republican officials who have strongly opposed the former president’s attempt to reverse election results are opposed to the same kind of attacks and key challenges that are similar to Cheney and the other nine House Republicans voted to impeach Trump.
And Republican senators, such as McConnell, who called Greene a “cancer,” and others who acknowledged her views would want to stand up for the party ‘s institutional values that saved the world for democracy with winning the Cold War against him. communism.
But in the next few weeks, a majority of GOP senators are expected to vote to get Trump in his Senate impeachment test. Most will take refuge in a questionable constitutional view that the lawsuit is controversial since Trump is vice president.
This will allow them to wrestle with the moral choice of what should be done by a leader in a leader who has sent his supporters on a deadly march on another branch of government. The motivation is the same as those who argue with Greene – a desire to circumvent the party’s constitution and avoid major challenges to maintain their grip on power.