Last week the US took another step on its journey towards autocracy, as Liz Cheney lost the Republican primary for her Wyoming district. Her father is former vice-president Dick Cheney, who masterminded the Iraq war under George W Bush. She is also unimpeachably conservative. Yet she has become anathema to Republicans. Her crime? She believes that accepting the outcome of fair elections is a higher duty than promoting the lies of their “great leader”. (See charts.)
上周，美国在通往专制的道路上又前进了一步，怀俄明州现任众议员利兹•切尼(Liz Cheney)在该州的共和党众初选中落败。她的父亲迪克•切尼(Dick Cheney)是小布什(George W Bush)的副总统，当年策划了伊拉克战争。她本人还是不可辩驳的保守派。然而，她却被共和党人讨厌。她何罪之有？她的罪过就是认为接受一场公平选举的结果是比宣扬他们“伟大领袖”的谎言更高的责任。（见图表）。
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