{"id":580447,"date":"2023-06-27T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cheney-on-the-problem-with-american-politics-were-electing-idiots\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:42:10","slug":"cheney-on-the-problem-with-american-politics-were-electing-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheney-on-the-problem-with-american-politics-were-electing-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cheney on the problem with American politics: \u2018We\u2019re electing idiots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/cheneyliz_121922gn3_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) suggested Monday that the problem with American politics is that \u201cwe\u2019re electing idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues,\u201d Cheney said at an event with the cultural and community center, 92nd Street Y, New York. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done in our politics is create a situation where we\u2019re electing idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Cheney, who is a staunch opponent of former President Trump, offered the reflection in response to a question about whether she would run for president if polling showed that it would hurt Trump\u2019s third White House run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look at it through the lens of, you know, is this what I should do or what I shouldn\u2019t do,\u201d the former congresswoman said. \u201cI look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can\u2019t be partisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the situation that we\u2019re in, where we have a major-party candidate who\u2019s trying to unravel our democracy \u2014 and I don\u2019t say that lightly \u2014 we have to think about, all right, what kinds of alliances are necessary to defeat him, and those are the alliances we\u2019ve got to build across party lines,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney, who ultimately lost her primary last year to a Trump-backed Republican candidate, has remained adamant that the former president cannot be reelected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really believe, and I\u2019ve never believed something as strongly as I know this, that the single most important thing for the country is that Donald Trump can\u2019t be anywhere near the Oval Office again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) suggested Monday that the problem with American politics is that \u201cwe\u2019re electing idiots.\u201d \u201cLook, I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues,\u201d Cheney said at an event with the cultural and community center, 92nd Street Y, New York. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done in our politics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":580448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/cheneyliz_121922gn3_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[78209,139252,43485,134353,139529,4941,73014,90482,90140,70289,4965],"class_list":["post-580447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-business-economy","tag-climate-change","tag-court-battles","tag-defense-national-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-liz-cheney","tag-senate","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}