In the end, it wasn’t close. Liz Cheney lost her seat last Tuesday to Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman who crushed Cheney 68.3 percent to 28.9 percent. Hageman carried every county but Albany and Teton.

Liz Cheney was once considered Republican royalty. Now Liz Cheney has become a pariah in her own party over her membership of the congressional panel investigating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol and Donald Trump's "Big Lie" and insurrection fomenting.

Liz Cheney is not some centrrist-liberal Republican, Liz voted with Trump 93% of the time, and Liz also chose not be align herself with today's Trumpian GOP.

Key to success in today's GOP is to lie and the extreme lie sets the narrative. It guarantees media notoriety that can be monetized - Donald Trump devised the mode - and, it provokes those who look down on lies - something many in today's GOP relish. It's called, "owning the Libs."

For four years, the GOP almost entirely ignored the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and the hollowness of Trump and his Trumpism

The GOPs fealty to Trump remains absolute. They happily worked alongside one of the most flagrant and systematic and powerful liar in this country’s history, and now, how can anyone be expected to believe a word the GOP says?

Trump, a meddlesome would be tyrant-king with tens of millions of followers, a leader of a neofascist movement that is literally threatening to uproot and destroy American democracy

Many Republican voters are already threatening right-wing terrorism and political violence, potentially on a massive scale if Trump is punished or faces significant consequences for his crimes. Some of Donald Trump's political cult followers are willing to kill and die at his command.

On social media, Republicans aren't celebrating a man who recently attacked an FBI office in Ohio as a Trumpist patriot. They're dismissing him as a false flag planted to paint the FBI in a flattering light.

According to Trump and his many enablers, there is no evidence that isn't planted or manufactured, no immoral act that is disqualifying, no act for which Trump himself or his GOP enablers can be held responsible.

Have the courage to be outraged at what the GOP has become. Outrage is not the absence of fear but the strength to persist and do the right thing despite it, just as Liz Cheney has done.

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