As U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney fights for her congressional career in Wyoming on Tuesday, Texas donors including George W. Bush and Karl Rove are trying to come to her aid. The two-term congresswoman and one of former President Donald Trump’s biggest critics within the GOP has raised nearly $1 million from Texas donors—far more than she’s raised from Wyoming residents or from any other state except California, where she has raised $1.4 million.
Rove and Bush along with the Cheneys are avatars of the pre-populist GOP. At this late date, it only exists in the minds of its former practitioners.
The rest of us have moved on to a set of priorities exemplified by Trump's 2016 platform. Whether we'd like to vote for Trump again or would prefer a younger candidate with less baggage, most of the party regards the Bush-Rove-Cheney group and their corporatist policies as "passé."
