Congresswoman Liz Cheney is correct: Republicans are "very sick"

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Liz Cheney says the Republican party is "very sick" and still under the control of 'a dangerous former president'

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Echo reported by Pocharapon Neammanee in Insider: 

Rep. Liz Cheney, on Sunday with Jonathan Karl, said that large portions of her Republican party are "very sick". Moreover, Ms. Cheney said that many of her Republican colleagues continue to believe in what Trump says. Despite losing the election, Cheney said she will continue to fight for what she believed in.

Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday said that large portions of her Republican party are "very sick" and says that they still believe in what former President Trump says.

"I think, one, it says that people continue to believe the lie, they continue to believe what he's saying, which is very dangerous," Cheney told Johnathan Karl, host of ABC's This Week when asked what her recent defeat says about Trump's hold on the Republican Party.

"I think it also tells you that large portions of our party, including the leadership of our party, both at the state level in Wyoming, as well as on a national level with the Republican National Committee, is very sick."

Cheney only received 30% of the vote for the Wyoming At-large Republican primary — told Karl that she believes that so many in the Republican party are under the grips of former President Trump, saying that her party needs to decide what its values are.

"We really have got to decide whether or not we're going to be a party based on substance and policy or whether we're going to remain as so many of our party are today, in the grips of a dangerous former president," Cheney said.

Despite her loss, Cheney said she would continue to fight for her principles in the constitution while her party was still under the influence of the former president.

"What I'm fighting for is the Constitution. What I'm fighting for is the perpetuation of the Republic. What I'm fighting for is the rule of law -- the fact that everybody's got to abide by the rule of law," she said.

"What I'm fighting for is the fact that elections have to matter and that when the election is over, and the courts have ruled and the electoral college is met, that the president of the United States has to respect the results of the election."

She added, "What I'm fighting for is the principle that we have a peaceful transition of power, and that we don't determine who rules based upon violence," Cheney said

Echo opinion letter published in the Orange County Register, a California newspaper:  Unfortunately, although she was seeking a third term in Congress, Liz Cheney lost to a candidate whom the former guy Trump endorsed. Cheney is from one of the most prominent Republican families in the U.S. All she had to do to win was to support the conspiracy theories involving a stolen election and get Trump’s endorsement. But the fact is, she is a person of integrity. She said in her concession speech that she loves her state and the Republican Party but she chose country over party.

She is a person of integrity willing to lose her place in Congress in favor of truth and protecting our Democratic government. 

"What I'm fighting for is the Constitution. What I'm fighting for is the perpetuation of the Republic. What I'm fighting for is the rule of law -- the fact that everybody's got to abide by the rule of law," said Ms. Cheney.

This scenario reminded me of a quote in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”: “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

From  Alba Farfaglia in San Clemente, California