Member-only story
SNL Understands the Republican Party Better Than Democrats
Contrary to popular media reports, the anti-Trump club of Republicans is small and getting smaller all the time.
In spite of her strict adherence to principle as it pertains to Donald Trump, embattled Republican Rep. Liz Cheney suffered the worst of all humiliations recently.
It wasn’t her ouster from Republican House leadership; it wasn’t problems back in her home state. Cheney was lampooned this weekend on Saturday Night Live, in a skit which pilloried her as desperate to form an anti-Trump coalition within the Republican Party…and having very little luck doing so.
Like so many other things, it’s funny because it’s true. Since the Lincoln Project cashed in, then crashed and burned out, the small anti-Trump Republican club has shrunk to Cheney, former House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Mitt Romney, and Larry Hogan.
Almost all the other members of the Republican Party- present, and aspiring- obviously see no benefit whatsoever in criticizing Donald Trump.