It would be easy to dismiss Liz Cheney’s post-primary crusade against Donald Trump as a quixotic campaign doomed to falter in the face of a Republican Party resigned to follow the former president, come what may.
The task is Sisyphean, without a doubt. But it’s also necessary. For the GOP, and for the country.
Cheney’s loss to Trump loyalist Harriet Hageman hardly came as a surprise. Predictions of a landslide victory were realized as Hageman, an anti-environmentalist lawyer and election denier, won by 35 percentage points. Wyoming is wildly pro-Trump, which makes Cheney a turncoat in the eyes of most of the state’s voters.
