The Friday Brief

October 4, 2024

The Big Picture

Profiles In Cheney

Liz Cheney is not the only Republican to endorse Kamala Harris to date, but she is by far the most impactful. Yesterday, Liz Cheney stood on the steps of a sacred space in Republican politics in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party. Born in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Republican Party’s origin story was a mission to end the spread of slavery, eventually right its profound injustice, and end its attendant horrors.

As dim as the embers of that first fire of the Republican Party have become in this fallen era, something of that early greatness stirred yesterday in Ripon as Liz Cheney was a modern profile in courage.

Liz Cheney's endorsement of Kamala Harris for president in 2024 is driven in part by her profound and correct opposition to Donald Trump and the moral collapse into which he’s led the Republican Party.

But it’s also her love of country and a clear-eyed understanding of the stakes of this election and the raw danger he poses to American the republic and our democratic system

Liz Cheney understands the rule of law, constitutional norms, and democratic principles come before party and politcs. She knows that no matter the ideological and policy disagreements she may have with President Kamala Harris, those disagreements will be resolved and discussed in a framework of the law and the Constitution, a stark contrast to Trump's threat to these norms.