When a true conservative like Rep. Liz Cheney -- the daughter of a Republican vice president -- can be kicked out of leadership for speaking truth to power, you know that something is very, very wrong.
Her only fault was refusing to condone Donald Trump’s "Big Lie" about the 2020 elections. She told the truth over and over: that the presidential election was not stolen and that, like it or not, President Biden won fair and square.
She told the truth despite vitriol from politicians who are more loyal to Trump than to our country. Despite constant attacks on social media. Despite knowing it could cost her own career.
Now, I don’t really agree with Rep. Cheney on much of anything. But I believe that there is a place for disagreement in our politics, as long as those disagreements are rooted in fact.
The Republican Party has decided that truth doesn’t matter anymore. Only blind loyalty.
The GOP is broken, and our two-party system is at risk. Now it’s up to us to make sure our democracy does not fail.
Of course, Liz Cheney is not alone in believing that the facts have to come first -- before party, before politics. Democrats, and a very few principled Republicans, have affirmed the same. It’s never been more important to elect leaders who will tell the truth no matter the cost, and it’s why Democrats must hold the House majority in 2022.
Unfortunately, our representative here in CA-25 is not like Liz Cheney.
Rather than supporting true conservatives like Rep. Cheney, Mike Garcia stands with conspiracy theorists and a grown man accused of raping a teenager. Mike sided with the insurrection against our country. He is unfit to serve us in Congress.
