Rep. Liz Cheney slammed the Democratic Party’s approach to identity politics, saying they have a tendency to segment society in a way that can be “condescending.”
“The Democratic Party segments society, and it sometimes can be very condescending,” the Wyoming Republican said. “I say this as a woman, and saying that these particular set of issues, those are the women’s issues, and if we want to talk about women, we are only going to talk about those issues. Instead of saying, ‘Wait a minute. We understand and recognize that there aren’t women’s issues, that women and minority voters care about a whole range of issues, and we don’t want to be patronizing and only talk about these issues to women.'”
Cheney made the comments during a virtual discussion with the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service on Monday. She was asked how the Republican Party can diversify its base without former President Donald Trump. The discussion was hosted by the institute’s Executive Director Mo Elleithee, a longtime Democratic strategist and spokesman.
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During the discussion, Cheney also prided the GOP’s approach to enhancing economic opportunity for minorities and women, which she said was encouraged by the Trump administration.
The Wyoming congresswoman has been an outlier from the pro-Trump branch of her party, publicly distancing herself from the former president and his allies.
After the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney supported the articles of impeachment against Trump, leading to his second impeachment trial in the Senate. Cheney blamed him for the breach that left five people dead. Her vote prompted the Wyoming GOP to censure her and some of her colleagues to mobilize around campaigning against her.
On Monday, Cheney compared the 2020 election to the 2000 election that led to weeks of recounting votes in Florida and an ultimate concession by Democratic nominee Al Gore.
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“[Gore] did what was right for the nation, and we had a peaceful transition of power,” she said. “I worked in countries around the world where they don’t have peaceful transitions of power, and that’s, you know, one of the reasons why what happened on Jan. 6, why I know it was so dangerous.”
Cheney faces reelection next year. She joined Congress in 2017.
