Republicans remove Liz Cheney from House leadership

“I'm going to do everything I can so that the former president never comes near the Oval Office”. With those words, Liz Cheney said goodbye to the position of 'number three' of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives. Cheney was dismissed this Wednesday in a secret vote, behind closed doors, from the 'caucus' – the equivalent of the Republican parliamentary group – for affirming that Joe Biden won the elections on November 3 clearly and irrefutably, something that Justice has confirmed of the United States and the authorities themselves – Republican and Democrat – of the 50 states that make up the country.

The congresswoman is also one of the 17 legislators – 10 representatives and 7 senators – who voted in favor of declaring Trump guilty in the 'impeachment' for the insurrection on January 6, in which a mob of supporters of the former president violently assaulted the Capitol in an act that had never occurred in the history of the United States and in which four deaths occurred.

Cheney's departure from the Republican leadership means 'Trumpism' has conquered the last remaining Republican stronghold. Cheney is as or more conservative than Trump and his followers. Caste comes to the greyhound. His father, Dick, is as far from the Democratic left as Santiago Abascal is from Pablo Iglesias.. And this is how his resume reveals it: vice president with George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense under George Bush 'Senior', Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, Congressman for ten years, and former CEO of the Halliburton oil services company, which, among other things, built the Guantanamo prison.

Indeed, Dick has been the great mentor of Liz's political career, who had to settle for being a representative for Wyoming when her attempt to become a senator for that state completely deflated due to the fact that her power base is in Washington. , where he has spent most of his life, not in the territory he claims to represent.

So the departure of Cheney's leadership ratifies Trump's populism's hold on the GOP. Last week, the former leader accused that formation of falling into what she described as Trump's “cult of personality”, and has affirmed that the former president's moral leadership over the party “makes us complicit in his efforts to destroy our democracy. That path is our destruction and, potentially, the destruction of our country.”. According to the website specialized in politics 'Axios', before the meeting in which his dismissal was decided, he stated that “if you want leaders who allow the spread of lies, I am not the right person, you have many others to choose from”.

Cheney's successor will be chosen on Friday, and it will most likely be Elise Stefanik, a New York state representative who embodies the malleability of 21st-century American politics' ideological tenets.. Stefanik has gone from supporting the investigation of Trump's 'Russian plot', strongly opposing the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico, and affirming that the then president was not qualified for the position, to being one of his biggest defenders..

The next battle in Liz Cheney's political life will be not for power, but for survival.. Already in February, the Wyoming Republican Party issued a vote of no confidence against her for her support for 'impeachment'. Now, there is no doubt that Trump and his allies are going to finance the campaign of any candidate who opposes her in the primaries for the 2022 congressional elections..

Wyoming is a deeply Republican state, so whoever wins that party's primary is assured of victory in the general election.. Thus, Trump may end up, even out of power, liquidating one of the most important political forces in recent decades in the United States: the Cheneys.. He's already finished off the Bushes and the Clintons, so it would just be another medal on his list of defeated enemies..