In praise of Liz Cheney. May we have more politicians like her

‘If the only way to get or keep power is to betray your principles, what’s the point of having power?’ Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

On Tuesday, Wyoming Republicans determine the fate of Representative Liz Cheney, the putative leader of the anti-Trump forces in the Republican party.

Six days after the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol – when no other Republican in the House or Senate was willing to rebuke Trump – Cheney charged on the House floor that “the president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing.”