Words of wisdom
Liz Cheney endorsed Harris for president the other day. She also had some thoughts on the other candidate.
The former Republican Wyoming representative spoke with Atlantic writer Mark Leibovich in Texas on Friday, following her endorsement of Harris for president this week. In her conversation, she shared words of wisdom for Harris—and a brutally honest condemnation of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Well there’s no point in being gently dishonest about those two, is there. They want to destroy everything. They’re bad men. They have to be stopped.
When asked how Harris should approach Tuesday’s presidential debate against Trump, Cheney responded by saying that Harris should relish the fact that this is an “opportunity [where] Donald Trump gets to show the American people who he is.” And who he is, in her words, is a “misogynistic pig.”
“This is my diplomatic way of saying it: They’re misogynistic pigs,” Cheney said, speaking of Vance and Trump as the audience erupted in applause. “I think that will become clear.”
She’s not wrong.
And just as with Hilary Clinton’s “Basket of deplorables” there will be many, many voters who turn out to support Drumpf because they, too, are misogynistic pigs. They vote and they matter.
It doesn’t matter what Drumpf IS, what matters is the feelings of the MGAhats. And don’t forget, “real men wear diapers” and ears with bandages.
Once upon a time elections were won or lost on the contest of ideals, of policy, of vision. Now they’re won by either a party that is testing how extreme it can become or the other who is still trying to be smallest target that can still get its name on the news.