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Maureen Dowd had an unusually good piece in the Sunday NYT reminding us why we must not make a hero or martyr of Cheney: she details the origin of the Big Lie with Cheney’s father, and her complicity with it in getting career started. I recommend reading it along with this piece.

Yes, Maureen Dowd's piece is excellent, Mary. That said, I don't believe that anyone really wants to make a hero or martyr of Liz Cheney. For the time being, she is merely a voice of reason trumpeting from within the GOP -- she is not on our side, but at the very least, she highlights two significant truths: the dangers posed by 45's Big Lie and by his very presence as so-called leader of the GOP. It is so critical to ingest what she says in order to understand all factions of that fractured pa…

Actually - and I say this as someone who has long considered myself an active opponent of people named Cheney - she is on our side. So are the never-Trump conservatives. There are two political parties now - the party that believes in democracy and the party that doesn't. When things are over and we can safely go back to worrying about policy differences, rather than the existence of the democratic constitutional republic, we can go back to being political opponents. But right now we are - like…

To all those who can't cotton to Cheney's politics: We are not discussing Cheney's particular politics right now. We are recognizing and agreeing with her overarching belief in our Constitutional democracy. Particular politics comes along later in the equation after our Constitutional Republic survives.