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For a political party that has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to women, the Republicans most out front challenging the GOP’s Trumpian slide away from democracy are women.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) could have turned a blind eye to the events of Jan. 6 like most of her colleagues and kept her seat in Congress. But unlike almost all of them, she had the cojones to tell the truth about former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the first time a defeated president tried to topple a core pillar of democracy.
When then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Cheney to recruit her for the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee, the two women knew of each other but had no personal relationship. “Call me Nancy,” Pelosi said, setting a tone of mutual respect that rose above the day-to-day partisan politics.