May 11, Liz Cheney delivered her parting shot and said it more eloquently yet clearly stated of what the division in the Republican Party is really about.. http://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/politics/liz-cheney-floor-speech-full-remarks/index.html
While on many public policy issues, I would differ with her, she ended her remarks that the conservative principle was devotion to the rule of law and the judicial process. What she said is that loyalty to democracy and the rule of law established in the Consitution is far more important than any loyalty to a political party or one leader. If preserving the Constitutional democracy and the rule of law we have, count me as a conservative, too.
Political parties are not even mentioned in the Constitution. They began as a disagreement over the extent in role and power of a federal government within the parameters set by the Constitution. The Constitution was designed to construct a government of, by, and for the people as voiced through the ballot box. It an alternative to rule by and for a tyrant, a king, or in modern terms, a dictator. It is against such dictatorial rule the American revolution was fought, to give us, the people, the liberty to pursue life and happiness as we define it and to give us the people, not a one-person strong man, the ability to decide the policies to achieve that. Cheney sees the judiciary as the arbiter of compliance to those rules established in the Constitution and not to respect such rulings, is an attack on the rule of law instead of a rule by a person.
Sixty judges of all ideological stripes found there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 vote she noted. That is the truth but it is inconvenient to a wannabe dictator who intends to overturn an election by violence or any other means, with an appeal to followers based on lying about the judicial findings or ignoring them to regain power and to challenge any vote by the people in the future. The one-man, one-party rule forces you to pledge allegiance and bow down to his/her's law and thoughts no matter how divorced from reality or a lie they are and to support that lust for absolute power, or face the punishing consequences. Freedoms to dissent or to change leadership peacefully fall, victim. Unchallenged, dictators become corrupt and more concerned about keeping the power they amass without resistance than tending to the needs of those they govern. The fools are those who think a dictatorship is fine because it is "their" dictator with whom they agree and grabs power in further their faction. History shows eventually such dictatorships end violently or die in some putsch that replaces one dictator with another. Dictatorships are especially likely to end in violence when they are of, by, and for a minority of the populace as is Donald Trump. The vote in 2020 laid bare his personal minority status.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/wjec/history/pdf/democracy_or_dictatorship.pdf
https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-3
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