The Cheney Attacks on Trump Will Backfire -

 The American Spectator 

Which goes to the heart of the GOP Establishment’s contempt for Trump. The former president — a self-made billionaire — has turned his back on the elite social class self-regard that Establishment Republicans have for themselves. Whether it was Reagan back then or Trump today, GOP Establishment elites cannot stand conservative Outsiders who have turned their backs on Establishment social elitism.

Broc Smith

  "Clueless.

And decidedly anti-conservative.

Yet again, the dinosaurs of the Republican Establishment are targeting an Outsider. The attack, as always, is backfiring big time.

This time around, it is the decidedly anti-conservative, anti-constitutional Cheneys — dad and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney. And his daughter, the defeated-by-her-GOP-constituents former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.

Dick Cheney showcases his now decidedly anti-conservative beliefs by openly endorsing the Democrats’ decidedly socialist–Marxist Vice President Kamala Harris. Daughter Liz has done the same. Principle? What’s that?

Make no mistake, the Cheney assault on Trump is merely the current version of the GOP Establishment assault on Outsiders — decided conservatives — who refuse to play the Establishment’s corrupt game.

Take a spin in the time capsule and go back to what GOP Establishment figures of the day said when their target was a conservative Outsider named Ronald Reagan. A sample of it is mentioned here but is worth recalling in view of the Cheney attacks on Trump. As noted at the time:

• Republican Vice President Nelson Rockefeller dismissed Reagan as “a minority of a minority” who “has been taking some extreme positions.” 

• New York’s Republican Sen. Jacob Javits said Reagan’s positions were “so extreme that they would alter our country’s very economic and social structure and our place in the world to such a degree as to make our country’s place at home and abroad, as we know it, a thing of the past.”

•  Illinois Republican Sen. Charles Percy said Reagan’s candidacy was “foolhardy” and would lead to a “crushing defeat” for the Republican Party. “It could signal the beginning of the end of our party as an effective force in American political life,” he said.

•  Former Republican President Gerald Ford said: “I hear more and more often that we don’t want, can’t afford to have a replay of 1964.” He argued that, if the Republican Party nominated Ronald Reagan, “it would be an impossible situation” because Reagan “is perceived as a most conservative Republican. A very conservative Republican can’t win in a national election.” When he was asked if that meant he thought Reagan couldn’t win, Ford replied to the New York Times: “That’s right.” The Times story went on to observe that Ford thought “Mr. Reagan would be a sure-loser in November” and that Reagan held “extreme and too-simple views.” 

. . ."In a matter of weeks, the American people will have the opportunity to render their own verdict on the Cheneys’ support of Kamala Harris, the socialist–Marxist nominee of the Democrats.

"Stay tuned. 

"But whatever else, it is crystal clear that the Cheney’s have now left their conservatism behind and have no intention of returning. And it will backfire." . . .