Liz Cheney: the Face of the Deeply Disliked Establishment

Following Yesteryears' Wealthy Donor GOP Strategy

For many years the GOP was the political party for wealthy people. As a millennial, I was always inculcated into the belief that Republicans predominantly represented rich oil barons and globalistic billionaires.

Boy, oh boy, the times they are a changin'.

Enter Liz Cheney. A deeply disliked Representative from Wyoming with an approval rating arguably hovering around 20%. That isn't even high enough to comprise a majority of outright Republican partisans in a state like Wyoming, which is deep red. Cheney is a Trump-derangement-syndrome suffering offspring of perhaps the most deeply ridiculed vice president in US history (save for Kamala Harris)- a corporation-beloved, pandering hack.

But Liz Cheney has somehow managed to raise millions of dollars in her election bid, outmatching her primary opponent by almost 4 to 1 in the process in spending power. This despite a favorability somewhere shy of her own father in the "shadow government" era post-9/11 or perhaps after the Bush administration was crippled by its Hurricane Katrina response. We know the money isn't coming from grassroots supporters, because it seems Liz Cheney has barely enough of them to fill a couple blocks in Casper. Where is her wack stack of Benjamins coming from?

The explanation of this is clear, and warrants a little smirk as well as an article here; Liz Cheney is a dinosaur in the age of flight, or a biplane in the era of the rocket engine. She is the epitome of the Republican Party of the 1990s or 2000s, just like her failure of a father, with his avarice, war-piggery, and demented coddling of billionaires. Her cash is coming from a few right people who hate the idea of populism for the working and middle classes. It doesn't surprise me in the least that she has raised so much money for a bid which would be completely doomed in every way if she did not have a lot of rich friends. That is exactly the problem with the Republicans, which the non-neoconservative element of the party seeks to rectify.