The party "must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution," the Wyoming lawmaker wrote in the Washington Post.
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Facing removal from party leadership, Rep. Liz Cheney doubled down on Wednesday, saying in a Washington Post op-ed that the GOP is at a "turning point" and calling on Republicans to turn away from former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, which she argued "can provoke violence again."
"The Republican Party is at a turning point, and Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution," the Wyoming Republican wrote in the op-ed. “History is watching. Our children are watching. We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process.”
In the op-ed, Cheney slammed Trump and said she would continue to do so “no matter what the short-term political consequences might be.”
“We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process,” Cheney wrote.
In the op-ed, she also called for Republicans to support the Justice Department’s investigations into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and renewed her calls for a bipartisan, 9/11-style fact-finding commission with subpoena power and no current members of Congress participating.
She also called on the party to move away from the "dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality.”
President Ronald Reagan, she wrote, "formed a broad coalition from across the political spectrum to return America to sanity, and we need to do the same now. We know how. But this will not happen if Republicans choose to abandon the rule of law and join Trump’s crusade to undermine the foundation of our democracy and reverse the legal outcome of the last election."
In the op-ed, Cheney called for Republicans to back “genuinely conservative principles,” arguing for low taxes, fiscal conservatism and small government.
“There is much at stake now,“ she wrote, “including the ridiculous wokeness of our political rivals, the irrational policies at the border and runaway spending that threatens a return to the catastrophic inflation of the 1970s.”
