Bringing Together Democracy: The Defiance of the Kinzinger-Lee-MacMullin PAC and the Great Task
Republican colleagues were hostile to Mr. Kinzinger and he received death threats from voters. He went to the Salt Lake City Public Library to back Mr McMullin in his attempt to oust Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee offered the White House chief of staff a group of prepared advocates who would go to bat for him.
Declaring that “democracy is on the line,” Mr. Kinzinger told Utah voters last month, “This is the best opportunity I see in the country, and I mean that, to send a message, to build something new, to send somebody that can change the status quo.”
A bipartisan slate of Democratic candidates for state offices in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Minnesota has been endorsed by his political organization. But the political action committee has spent virtually no money. Nor, for that matter, has Ms. Cheney’s PAC, the Great Task, beyond the ad in Arizona and the money it spent on her failed effort to stave off a Republican primary defeat this summer.
The Lincoln Project is one of many groups that are rejecting the GOP on social media and TV commercials, in order to separate them from the GOP. The Republican Accountability Project takes testimonials and turns them into billboards and advertisements.
Whether we will be able to defend self-government in the coming years is dependent on whether we can bring together Republicans, Democrats and independents who are committed to American democracy. “Are the votes there? Yes, they are there. Can we bring them together? That is the challenge.”
The power that Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinga bring is their own personal stories of defiance. Ms. Cheney doesn’t like to make endorsements, just focusing on the races that she believes to be the biggest threats to democracy and Democratic candidates. That makes Tuesday events like Ms. Slotkin more valuable.
Many college-educated voters who support independence for candidates are willing to vote for Democrats who are not beholden to them, even in tight races.
Do we Live in the Camp? Antisemitism and Hate: The Wyoming Republican argues that Democracy is Protected by the Law
In his speech at the Anti-Defamation League’s Never Is Now Summit on Antisemitism and Hate, Cheney stated that it was a clear victory for Team Normal.
In important races around the country people coming together to say we think in democracy, according to the Wyoming Republican. “We believe in standing up for the Constitution, and for the Republic. And a real rejection of the toxicity, and the hate, and vitriol, and of Donald Trump.”
Cheney will be leaving office in less than two months, after she was soundly defeated in her August primary by a Trump-backed opponent. Her continued criticism of Trump’s role inciting the attack on the US Capitol was viewed as a key factor in her defeat.
Cheney made clear that she is trying to limit the scope of a potential Republican majority not committed to protecting democracy by shaping the next session of Congress.
Cheney said, “And I think for me, as well as for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, there has just been a real recognition that we don’t minimize our policy disagreements.”
Cheney said that they knew from history that it was impossible to tolerate hate speech or antisemitism.
Both parties agree that we need to be a big tent. There must be some views that must never be in the tent on both sides, according to Cheney. “There are some views that cannot be accepted.”