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What Liz Cheney doesn’t understand

By Eddie Scarry

Published May 6, 2021 3:50pm ET

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What Liz Cheney doesn’t understand — Members in the audience hold up "Make America Great Again" hats at the conclusion of a speech by Vice President Mike Pence at the America First Policies, "Tax Cuts to Put America First" event Thursday, March 22, 2018, in Manchester, N.H. | (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

The intraparty feud between Republicans Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy is small and inconsequential, but with her op-ed in the Washington Post on Wednesday, Cheney really has just become a self-promoting nag.

We get it. She wants people to know how principled and brave she is by lecturing her own party about the need to make nice with Democrats on the 2020 election. And yes, that’s exactly what it is she’s doing.

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