"The 'Trump Will Be an Authoritarian Destroyer of Democracy' Narrative Is Patently Absurd"
Wrong.
‘"I think if the party goes down the path of nominating Donald Trump, certainly the party itself will have lost any claim to be a party that is, in fact, supportive of the Constitution," Cheney added.
She says it's a misconception that a second Trump term "wouldn't be that bad" because of the separation of powers and institutions that some have suggested would restrain him.
One of the main messages of her book is that people can't actually count of them to work: a House led by Johnson full of lawmakers who have pledged allegiance to Trump, courts whose rulings Trump has made clear he will ignore, a Senate confirmation process that Trump could avoid, radical far-right figures who he would appoint to his administration.
"Our republic can't sustain that," Cheney said, adding that "the Republican Party, as it exists today, is dangerous to the country."
She says Republican leaders have chosen Trump and can't be counted on to stop him.’
Liz Cheney's book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning slams Trump's efforts to stay in power after 2020 and the Republicans who enabled him. She tells NPR why voters should mobilize against him.
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Trump will ignore the courts and Congress – or if Republicans control Congress, Congressional Republicans will facilitate and support a Trump dictatorship – and Trump appointees will carry out Trump’s unlawful, un-Constitutional orders.