Time magazine: Elections are undemocratic

Time magazine's Philip Elliott (ex-AP) had an interesting take on Republican voters in Wyoming picking Harriet Hageman over Liz Cheney in their congressional primary. Elliott called the election a Soviet disappearance.

The headline said, "The GOP Just Borrowed a Soviet Skill and Disappeared Liz Cheney."

The dude believes voting is a Soviet skill.

Elliott wrote, "It’s not just the Soviets who are masters of disappearing someone. Just look at Wyoming, where voters this week drubbed a former senior member of the Republican establishment out of office on orders from former President Donald Trump. Rep. Liz Cheney lost her bid for re-nomination by a stunning 37 points after daring to hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump made defeating Cheney his top priority, making his contempt for her and her famous family clear. The Republican National Committee didn’t even mention Cheney in their statement Tuesday evening on Harriet Hageman’s victory in the deep-red state."

But Liz has not disappeared. Republicans did not kill her. Republicans did not send her to a gulag in Siberia. Republicans did not banish her to a re-education camp.

A two-thirds majority in Wyoming picked someone new who represented Wyoming instead of DC. 

Elliott made it clear that Liz represented the Eastern Establishment.

He wrote, "Cheney had, before Jan. 6, enjoyed a privileged place in the Republican Party. She was the daughter of a former Vice President and a conservative power player mom. She had stints at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development during the George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administration, worked for a time at the World Bank, and was a player of her own making in conservative groups around town. She won election to her father’s former House seat in 2016, and from there moved quickly into the ranks of leadership. Her resume was, put simply, golden."

Then she voted to impeach her party's president. That was her choice. The party gave her a second chance. She decided to join Pelosi's January 6 witch hunt. The party gave her leadership post to someone younger, prettier and more loyal.

Wyomingians saw that as a deal breaker. They elected her knowing her ties to the state were largely imaginary but they also realized she had power. By joining with Pelosi on this mad witch hunt, Liz lost her power.

Bye-bye Liz.

Take your broom and ride home.

From his desk in Washington, Elliott argued that by being a Cheney, Liz owned the congressional seat in perpetuity.

But in Wyoming, voters said no and nominated Harriet Hageman.

Somehow, the election is undemocratic while dynastic politics are democratic.

When Time runs stuff like this, I cry for the trees who died to make the magazine possible. It is such a waste of life.