The ending of “Better Call Saul,” I promise not to say too much, is about redemption, which seemed like a simple end result for America’s favorite scammer, but also the best ending to contrast with that of “Breaking Bad. “
I talk about it not as a television critic, I could only check if it was as appealing as American politics, but as someone who has long studied the Cheneys, the sequel and the prequel.
The original, Dick Cheney, recently said this about Trump in a crusade announcement: “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been a person who poses a greater risk to our republic than Donald Trump. He is a coward. A genuine boy would lie to his followers.
It’s a great statement and I would actually approve of it, especially if it were said by someone else, almost anyone else. Among other questions, Cheney talks about the big lie, Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was manipulated, through democrats, through Italian satellites, through Chinese temperature indicators, choose. It’s a lie that, surprisingly, continues to grow, no matter how occasionally or meticulously it is discredited. This is a lie, according to polls, that a significant majority of Republicans claim to believe.
The fact that the elder Cheney so furiously opposed Trump would be an attractive old footnote, for at least two things:
First, he’s doing it to his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, who would arguably have become Trump’s biggest enemy (it’s not easy to be the most sensible on the list, by the way), and who is expected to lose a lot in a number one race Tuesday night opposite one of Trump’s true believers.
And second, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote an e-book, The Deconstructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party, about how former Republicans paved the way for Trump to become the leader of the Republican Party, in which Milbank puts a lot of blame on other people like Newt Gingrich and, yes, you guessed it, Dick Cheney.
Liz Cheney is a hero, and not just because so many Republicans call her a traitor. We use the H word too gently in those days, and maybe we have. But Cheney sacrificed her position within the Republican Party, which necessarily exiled her. she, as well as her leadership position in the Republican Party, and kept her seat in Congress to spell out what so many others in the party are too afraid to say, and which her father put as well as anyone else in this announcement.
That Trump is a danger to this country and deserves to be, as Liz Cheney says, away from the Oval Office.
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Anyone with any wisdom about American politics in the twenty-first century understands the irony here.
Liz Cheney is one of only two Republicans on the House Special Committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, an insurrection encouraged by Trump, an insurrection aimed at preventing the recount of votes in another way in the Electoral College, an insurrection in which the lives of members and Congress and Trump’s former sycophant, Mike Pence, they were threatened, an insurrection that would eventually lead the FBI to generate an unprecedented search warrant in the apartment of a former president, an insurrection that led to unprecedented threats against the FBI for following a court-ordered rule of law.
Liz Cheney is the driving force behind the committee. At hearings, as one of two Republicans on the committee, he delivers opening and closing statements, which regularly drive one or two more nails into what Cheney hopes will be Trump’s political coffin.
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Like her father, Liz Cheney is a staunch conservative. Unlike her father, Liz Cheney wasn’t the guy who led us to the war in Iraq, and she wasn’t the vice president who said that those who opposed the war, especially in the early years, were putting America at risk. Remember: we have to fight them there or fight them here.
Milbank reminds us of Elder Cheney’s tense quotes with the truth. He claimed (erroneously) that it was “fairly well confirmed” that the Sept. 11 mastermind had met with Iraqi intelligence. He claimed (erroneously) that Saddam Hussein was related in detail to al-Qaeda. He claimed (wrongly) that Saddam possessed these mythical weapons of mass destruction and that he was about to approve nuclear weapons. And at Cheney’s alone that will live forever, he promised us that Iraqis would welcome the U. S. military as, yes, liberators.
There is much more, but you see the idea. Cheney demonized the enemies/Democrats and, in doing so, contradicted the reports and expectations of the U. S. intelligence committees. In the U. S. , they in fact did not expect the liberating scenario.
And it wasn’t the intelligence committees that painted for Halliburton. Or those who had the nickname “Vice”.
It’s great that her father has supported Liz against Trump, but it doesn’t exactly look like a story of redemption for Dick.
This is what most people expect from young Cheney. Assuming she lost on Tuesday, or even if she didn’t, when she ran for re-election in Wyoming, the state where the Cheneys have been a political dynasty, most people expect her to run in the 2024 Republican Party’s presidential number one opposed to Trump. This assumes that Trump will show up, which is almost certain unless he is in prison at the time.
Cheney wouldn’t run to win. There is no chance of this happening. She would run for there to be in the race who constantly calls Trump and the big lie and the danger to democracy that Trump represents. And even if Trump doesn’t show up, she would be there to remind us of the other Republicans in the race who cowardly allowed the total litany of Trump’s lies.
But the fact prevailed in his mind, and it became his project to remind the public of the danger that a return to force through Trump would pose to the American democratic project.
It’s close to redemption for me.
Mike Littwin has been a columnist for too many years to count them. It has Dr. J, 4 presidential inaugurations, six national conventions, and countless numbing speeches in the snow of New Hampshire and Iowa.
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