Jack Shafer has the silliest argument in the always irritating 'the enemy of your enemy on one particular point is therefore your BF' genre" I've ever seen lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/05/retwee…
Shafer's examples of "Democrats" and "liberal journalists" who allegedly now love Liz Cheney are fucking hilarious
The "liberals" who now allegedly worship Liz Cheney include a conservative talk show host, a Republican member of Congress, the Financial Times, People Magazine, and Chris Cillizza. He finally gets one actual Dem saying one nice thing in there at the end. Just pathetic stuff.
As for the liberals who according to the headline now love *Dick* Cheney, he cites zero examples of anybody saying anything positive about Dick Cheney at all, because why would they, unless you're living in a guilt-by-not-even-association dreamworld
Basically, this trope of anti-anti Trumpism consists of pretending not to get this joke:
The insidious game actually going on here is the implicit claim that it's inherently wrong for Republicans to criticize Daddy Trump -- up to and including his seditious lies about election fraud -- and there should be no positive incentives for doing so

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