{"id":5982,"date":"2022-08-20T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whia.us\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2022-08-20T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T22:52:53","slug":"braveheart-republican-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/5982\/","title":{"rendered":"Braveheart Republican Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ayman Hakki,<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Liz Cheney lost her congressional seat to another republican handpicked by Donald Trump to run against her, she became my hero. Like John McCain, before her, she\u2019ll be remembered fondly long after Mr. Trump strikes a deal with prosecutors to \u201cnot-run\u201d for President. Because regardless of where the investigations go, I suspect he won\u2019t run and be content wielding power from behind the scenes, as he did in Wyoming in order to defeat Congresswoman Cheney.<\/p>\n

What Donald Trump did on January 6 was so subversive, that it rises to the level of betrayal for many Americans. While others seem to excuse him no matter what. All, Liz Cheney, had to do to be assured victory for herself in Wyoming, was to remain quiet about Trump\u2019s inexcusable inaction, on January 6, and not embarrass sycophant Trump allies, particularly House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy according to Paul Kane (The Wash Post, Thu., August 18, 2022.)<\/p>\n

Kane claims that one would have to go back to the 1950s to find someone who did the same as Liz Chaney Then, Senator Margaret ChaseSmith led the counterattack on McCarthyism. Both Cheney and ChaseSmith were Republicans, both stood up to would-be tyrants, and both were women. Kane\u2019s article suggests to me that women may be more courageous than men in defending the truth, against their colleagues, even with their career on the line.<\/p>\n

I suspect that a women\u2019s instinct of sacrificing her own interests for the benefit of her children could explain why she does so more than a man. Cheney, from the day she was appointed to the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, kept on defending the country, but she had to pay the price. Not only is she not going to become the first female Republican Speaker (a position also she was to fill,) she\u2019s no longer a member of the House of Representatives. As a Syrian American Republican, disenchanted with the GOP, she is my hero. Putting country before politics is not what I\u2019ve seen in Syria, and recently it\u2019s not been what I\u2019ve experienced here in the USA.<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s much easier to stand up for one\u2019s beliefs, when it doesn\u2019t pose a life risk, when there is financial security, and when there is support in some circles for a principled stance. Liz Chaney enjoys having all the advantages, which makes it easy to speak one\u2019s mind, but why have others-men especially male republicans-not done so? It is very unlikely that women in Syria would have the leverage Liz Chaney has. Being able to fall back to a comfortable life, in the event of losing one\u2019s career is a privilege, not every woman has.<\/p>\n

Maybe there is a little hero in all of us and given the right opportunity, we shouldn\u2019t suppress it. Liz Chaney didn\u2019t. She said what she\u2019ll do and did it: \u201cWe must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what\u2019s required to defeat it. I have said since January 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office. And I mean this\u201d (Kane, 2022). She stood up to her own party\u2019s man, just like any brave woman would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe there is a little hero in all of us and given the right opportunity, we shouldn\u2019t suppress it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,133,128],"tags":[768,152,769],"series":[1027],"coauthors":[197],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-most-important-topics-en","category-opinions","category-updates-en","tag-liz-cheney","tag-congress-en","tag-769","series-whia-synergy"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/whia.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnnnn-e1661021829396.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/whia.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/feed\/podcast\/whia-synergy","embedCode":"

Braveheart Republican Woman<\/a><\/blockquote>