After they sealed the deal in excommunicating Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), from a leadership position on Wednesday, far-right Republican legislators took to Twitter to celebrate their own party’s civil war. “Liz Cheney seems to be auditioning for a job with the Lincoln Project,” 34-year-old conspiracy theorist and QAnon follower Rep. Lauren Bobert (R-CO) tweeted. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is currently under investigation for sex trafficking, tweeted a clip of himself being interviewed by Steve Bannon and wrote, “Liz Cheney is the masthead for the Establishment in Washington, D.C.”
Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) also got in on the act, tweeting, “Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye Liz Cheney” But if history is any guide, Cawthorn will soon express regret over his statement. After winning his House seat in 2020, Cawthorn simply tweeted: “Cry more, lib.” But in a subsequent interview with New York magazine, he said the tweet was, “[T]he thing I regret most” in light of the Capitol riot. In January, Cawthorn also claimed to having second thoughts about promoting Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. He told North Carolina’s WTVD-TV news, “Once you start floating this idea of election fraud and people outright stealing an election and cheating, that has only one outcome. The party as a whole should have been much more wise about their choice of words.”
