POLITICS
The End is Nigh for America’s Two-Party System
Over 150 prominent Republicans issue “A Call for American Renewal”
Wow, if you had told me twenty years ago, as Dubya and Dr. Evil orchestrated the First Big Lie — that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq — that it would be a Cheney who started the great exodus from the Republican Party, I would have thought you mad. But welcome to the alternate universe of a post-Trump, almost-post-COVID world. What is up is down; what is down is sideways. This week’s speech by Congresswoman Liz Cheney — a rebuttal to her being ousted from a leadership position in the GOP for refusing to pander to Trump’s election-fraud narrative — very well may go down in history as a major turning point for America: the death of its centuries-old two-party system.
We are watching history unfold, my friends. On Thursday morning, an opinion piece in The Washington Post — penned by Charlie Dent, Mary Peters, Denver Riggleman, Michael Steele and Christine Todd Whitman — formally launched “A Call for American Renewal,” a Declaration of Independence, of sorts, from the MAGA-infested Republican Party. Representing over 150 local, state, and national leaders (all of whom have signed on to the declaration), the group’s “call” is simple: get your shit together or we’re out. The official…
