Liz Cheney says the GOP risks becoming known as 'the party of white supremacy'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Tuesday said her party needed to act to prevent the GOP from becoming known as "the party of white supremacy" by standing against the extreme views promoted by many of the rioters during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Cheney pointed to the fact that members of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC, had displayed symbols of anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and the Confederacy.

She said Republicans now had a "duty and obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection."

"It's very important for us to ignore the temptation to look away," Cheney, who is the third-highest-ranking House Republican, said Tuesday during an online event hosted by the Reagan Institute, as reported by CBS News.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/liz-cheney-says-gop-risks-124950176.html

Many of them are quite fine with that.

[onecaliberal]

1. I regret to inform you, that ship has sailed.

[still_one]

7. Ya beat me to it. +++

[underpants]

9. Bon Voyage ⛵️

[jrthin]

21. +1000

[Grasswire2]

2. It is what it is. nt

[NewHendoLib]

3. RISKS ???? wrong tense. Wrong verb, really. IS works.

[Caliman73]

12. Beat me to it.

I was going to say..."RISKS?"

We all know that prior to the 1960's, the Democratic Party, especially the Southern Democrats, were the party of segregation. We had Richard Byrd in the Senate, who was part of the Klan. We had FDR policies that intentionally excluded Black people from protection of labor laws and cut them out of Social Security for some time. HOWEVER, we also all know that when the Kennedy's and LBJ worked to push through the Civil Rights Acts in the 1960's that this started to shift. LBJ knew that he was giving the South up for "a generation" not knowing that he would be giving it up for more than one.

WHO TOOK THE DIXIECRATS IN? I mean if both parties were opposed to racism, then the Dixiecrats would have just been sitting there powerless, without a vehicle to maintain political power. SO, which of the 2 major political parties reached out to the racists, to the White Supremacists, and courted them?

That's right, it was the Republicans!

I am not saying that the Democratic Party is without its problems on race and White Supremacy. We have a whole lot of people who bristle when the idea of "White Privilege" is brought up. But there is only ONE party that has consistently worked in the interests of minorities in the last 60+ years. The Democrats. There is one party that has openly courted White Supremacists. The Republicans. There is no "Risk" here. Republicans are already the party of White Supremacy. Along with the party of misogyny, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ bigotry, and other forms of hate. If the Republicans purged themselves of members who hated one or another group of people, they'd be down to ZERO members.

[JHB]

20. Yup. As I lke to phrase it...

The minute the Democrats got out of the Klansman Koddling business, the Republicans set up recruiting tables.

[Thtwudbeme]

4. No, Liz- the GOP is racist- everyone knows that

and I don't think much of the way they treat anyone other than wealthy white men, and their wives.

[Cicada]

5. It is extremely disturbing to admire her, but her effort here is remarkable

[lagomorph777]

6. That's not a risk.

It is a realized issue.

Way too late to worry about it now.

[PJMcK]

8. Hey, Cheney!

In the words of your father, go fuck yourself.

The Republican Party became a cult at least 5 years ago but its demise began in the 1980s.

The Republican Party lost its collective mind as evidenced that they didn't have a policy platform in the last presidential election.

[Cha]

10. So sorry.. already there. that

ship has sailed.

[OhZone]

11. Didn't that happen like 55 years ago?

[brooklynite]

13. Better marketing than Bobby Jindal's "The Stupid Party"

[PCIntern]

16. Whatever happened to that asshole,

Our “soon-to-be- President”?

[twin_ghost]

14. Too Late. Trumpism has made it that.

[ananda]

15. No risk at all. It's been that party for a good while.

It's hard to remember a time when it wasn't, actually.

[Bettie]

17. Becoming?

Oh, Liz, it's already there. Has been for a while.

[aocommunalpunch]

18. Remember "I am not a witch," a few years back?

Change that to "We are not white supremacists." It ought to go over about as well. When you just have to keep reminding people what you're NOT. Brilliant.

[unblock]

19. Emphasizing the wrong words. *becoming known* as the white supremacy party.

As usual, Republican introspection is never more than brand management.

They *are* the white supremacy party, but they've gotten away with pretending to be merely a Conservative party that oh just happens to be wildly attractive to white supremacists.

But the crisis now is merely image for them. All Donnie did was make it obvious, and tradition republicans fret now only because the whole coded red meat for the base thing had been working well for them.

They're fine representing white supremacists. They just don't want an unpopular label.

[stillcool]

22. how quaint

[MOMFUDSKI]

23. What does she mean

"BECOMING"? Fer Chrissakes. Makes herself look really stupid and out-of-touch just like the rest of her party. Who does she think she is talking to here? Just. fuck. her.

[NurseJackie]

24. Risks?

Too late.