Persuaded to be Embarrassed

didn’t want to watch the news as the congressional Republicans booed Liz Cheney out of leadership. It was too troubling. Her offense was that she refused to stop telling the truth. God bless her.

That truth-telling has become grounds for removal from a Party’s leadership is itself shocking. Even more shocking, to me, is that no one doing the booing and subsequent voting seemed to suffer even a slight pang of shame. There was no evident embarrassment. It was just “good riddance” to a problem, where truth was the basic problem…