Last Friday we wrote about Liz Cheney’s troubles back home in WY, and since then we’ve seen WY media reports that 10 of the state’s 23 Republican county organizations have censured her. On Monday we wrote about former Bush appointees leaving the GOP.
Today comes a piece in American Greatness synthesizing these data points, arguing that “Cheney’s Republican Party Is No More.” In a very real sense, the obituary is a fair one.
Trump wasn’t the cause of the extinction, but rather its beneficiary, as he embraced the new populist-nationalist doctrine the grassroots was feeling. The prior migration of the Davos-attending super rich from GOP to the Dems can be viewed as a cause, a result or maybe both.
This latter party change has been evident in WY for a decade or more. Its one high roller county - Teton County - is the one reliably blue island in a statewide sea of red. That county is known for wealthy residents, skiing, Jackson Hole and the summer Fed meeting, a kind of mini-Davos. It is also the Cheney clan’s WY residence.
