Liz Cheney Says Conservatives Might Have to Form New Party Because GOP Has ‘Been So Corrupted’ By Trump

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney told Peter Baker with The New York Times on Saturday that the Republican Party might be unsalvageable after becoming the party of Trumpism throughout the last nine years.

During an hour-long conversation with Baker at the 2024 Cap Times Idea Fest hosted by Madison, Wisconsin’s The Capital Times, Cheney declared the GOP might be a dying party. The former high-ranking House Republican blamed what she called a fealty among many conservatives to former President Donald Trump.

“It’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party survives because it’s been so corrupted,” Cheney said during a broad conversation about the state of national politics, her support of Vice President Kamala Harris, and her opinion of the party of her father.

Cheney declared Americans need “two strong parties” from which to choose and concluded the Republican Party might no longer be a home for people she categorized as traditional conservatives.

“Can the party purge itself of Trump, is that something that can happen?” Baker asked.  Cheney responded:

We need our political system to reflect the goodness of the American people… Whether it’s organizing a new party – look, it’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly, that people ought to to be voting for Republican candidates until it recognizes what it’s done. And so I think making sure that on an individual basis, we’re casting votes for serious, responsible people – that we’re encouraging people to get involved and run.

There is certainly going to be a big shift I think in how our politics work. I don’t know exactly what that will look like. I don’t think it will just simply be, “Well. the Republican Party is gonna put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races.” I think far too much has happened. It’s too damaging.

Baker pressed Cheney as to whether there might need to be a “new party” much as the GOP was “born out of the ashes” of the Whig Party.

Cheney replied, “It may well be because again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man.”

Watch above via The Capital Times.