{"id":20467,"date":"2021-05-04T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20467"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:14:28","slug":"not-my-party-but-ill-cry-if-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/05\/04\/not-my-party-but-ill-cry-if-i-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Not my Party, but I’ll cry if I want to"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n

So, the Republican House Caucus, along with the Party as broadly conceived, is considering turfing Liz Cheney from her position as chair<\/a> because she maintains that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and that Our Previous President is lying about it. The top candidate for that position appears to be Elise Stefanik<\/a>.\r\n

Let\u2019s be clear: it\u2019s not my Party. I am convinced that it is important for the health of American democracy that there be a functional Conservative Party, so yes, I am concerned about the spiral of dysfunction, but there\u2019s no reason for Conservatives to care what I think. I don\u2019t have any \u2018advice\u2019 for Conservatives, and they shouldn\u2019t take \u2018advice\u2019 from people who aren\u2019t Conservatives.\r\n

But.\r\n

The position that the 2020 election miscarried is not, I don\u2019t think, an inherently Conservative position. The position that Our Previous President is a bad man who misused his office is not, I think, a violation of Conservative principles. Not as I understand them, of course; it\u2019s up to the Conservatives to decide what their positions and principles might be.\r\n

If it does turn out that Conservatism, as a political force and a tribe of Americans, decides that in order to call yourself a Conservative you must believe that Donald Trump was a good President who did nothing wrong, and that he won the 2020 election and that the current Administration is illegitimate, then\u2026 then I don\u2019t know the way forward for this country. If the only way to do anything within their Party is to publicly claim those things, then I honestly fear that our democracy is in immediate<\/i> danger. Like, we may not last the decade danger. More so, I am afraid, than we were five months ago or a year ago.\r\n

We\u2019re still in the \u2018if\u2019 stage, of course. And maybe the caucus chair decision isn\u2019t a tipping point. But maybe it is\u2014if what Liz Cheney believes and promotes as her ideology is no longer what Conservatism is, and what Elise Stefanik is on about is what Conservatism is, and if (as it seems) more than a third of the country identifies themselves with that kind of Conservatism\u2026 well, as I say, it\u2019s not my Party but it is my country, and I am concerned.\r\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn't even like Liz Cheney, but great googly moogly.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20469,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions\/20469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}