The Media Is Treating Cheney Like a Fallen Hero

The lament begins. (Wailing and gnashing of teeth? Probably not that bad.) Rep. Liz Cheney loses her primary in Wyoming to Trump-backed challenger

The media always loves a Republican loser. They love them better when they lose to Democrats, but they take what they can get.

Cheney was first elected to the House seat her father once held in 2016, and she was immediately tagged a rising star because of her background — both her father’s legacy and her experience as a senior State Department official — and her ability to deliver political messages forcefully and succinctly.

If it was any deeper, I would need hip waders just to read the article. And this is not the worst of the few I glanced at.

Of course they love her. She hates Trump, and that is enough for now. They would eventually come to hate her as much as they loathed her father, but that won't come to pass.

There is more about how the impeachment vote and January 6 are not playing well to actual Republicans.

This wasn't hard to predict, and several - many - people did. The Other McCain has some info on what it means going forward. R.I.P., Republican Establishment

Click thru for most of it, but this observation sums up why she lost fairly well.

How strange was it that Liz Cheney, allegedly representing Wyoming in Congress, should be anti-Trump, when no state in the Union gave a greater share of its vote to Trump in 2020 than Wyoming, where Trump came within a statistical eyelash of getting 70% of the vote. In essence, Liz Cheney has been waging war on her own state’s voters.

Personally I expect to see her move to a different state, and then move to a different party saying something about not being welcome in the party of Trump, and then the media will love her even more.