Liz Cheney's Trump resentment

 Breitbart:

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) resents former President Donald Trump for stealing her political inheritance of policy leader of the Republican Party, Johnathan Tobin penned in Newsweek on Tuesday.

Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has grown increasingly fixated on fighting Trump because the former president has reshaped the Republican Party toward American First principles and away from the uni-party establishment, Tobin asserted.

“[H]er animus toward Trump is rooted in resentment for stealing the GOP out from under her and other members of the old establishment,” Tobin wrote. “Already out of touch with the base because of her enthusiasm for disastrous wars and distinct lack of interest in the social and economic issues that grassroots Republicans care about, Cheney’s hopes to continue as a party leader were already finished.”

Tobin slammed Cheney for allying herself with the Democrats’ partisan January 6 Committee, which he said was a deliberate plan to “elevate herself” above what would have been impossible under the shadow of Trump.

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Though she says her actions are ‘the most important thing I’ve ever done’ and therefore worth the sacrifice of her career,” Tobin continued, “Cheney’s decision to lead the Democrats’ witch hunt is actually a way to elevate herself into the status of national heroine, which she could never have otherwise achieved.”

Tobin hinted Cheney’s plan to increase her estranged political brand will make her a celebrity with Democrats on CNN or MSNBC, which she may join as a “talking head” after she loses her GOP primary on August 16.

“Far from ending her career, Cheney has started a new one,” Tobin outlined. “Becoming the Left’s favorite ex-Republican guarantees that she will remain a celebrity, with a possible future as a quixotic—though well-funded—presidential candidate in 2024 as well as a talking head on CNN or MSNBC.”

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I do not see her as a viable candidate in the GOP.  A gig on left-wing news shows looks like a possibility, but mainly to knock Trump since her other views are not popular with the left. 

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