SherBeareth<p>Per <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheNewYorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNewYorker</span></a> </p><p>Are We <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sleepwalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sleepwalking</span></a> Into <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a>?</p><p>Liz <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cheney</span></a>, the former congresswoman from Wyoming <br>and an ardent <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a>, is an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/apostate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apostate</span></a> for modern times. In a political party that has evolved into a personality <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a>, her <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/apostasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apostasy</span></a> resides in her <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/refusaltoworship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refusaltoworship</span></a> its leader and in her defense of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>. </p><p>For such impudence, she was <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/banished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banished</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/votedout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>votedout</span></a> of Congress.</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/are-we-sleepwalking-into-dictatorship" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12</span><span class="invisible">/18/are-we-sleepwalking-into-dictatorship</span></a></p>