The Liz Cheney Effect Is a Demonstration of Democracy, Right?

Nicky Francona: How did Donald Trump manage to dominate what it meant to be a Republican and an American conservative within just a few years of coming down that ridiculous golden escalator? He says there's basically two diametrically opposed tales that have emerged in response to Trump's rise. One is the aberrationist tale, according to which the venerable tradition of principled American conservatism has been hijacked by an utterly unprincipled demagogue. The other is this idea that Trump's rise was really no big surprise,. This is what American conservatism at its core had always been, a reactionary movement fueled by racial and cultural grievance held together by anti-liberal sentiment.