Note to Liz Cheney: You're No Lincoln
Much has been written about Liz Cheney and her motivations for blowing up her congressional career over a seemingly psychotic obsession with Donald Trump. But there are aspects to the analyses that are missing the larger point that Cheney was not motivated by high principles and a quest to save our country. She was motivated by hatred, self-interest, and vengeance.
In a Wall Street Journal column entitled "I Don't Donate to Politicians, but I Will to Liz Cheney," frequent contributor Joseph Epstein displayed his anti-Trump bias through a vapid argument about Cheney's "principled stance against Trump," jumping to conclusions based on meaningless anecdotes and unsubstantiated inferences about Cheney's motivations for her self-interested positions. Although he never met Cheney, Epstein justified his conclusions on his "pleasant history" with her parents.
