Early in her own book, Cheney mentions that her voting record is more conservative than the "freedom caucus" but she wanted nothing to do with them because she could see they were unhinged.
She isn't giving up being a conservative.
She isn't going to become a liberal.
She is doing what Ziblatt and Levitsky said Republicans would need to do to save us from someone who has gone full-on authoritarian.
Their book was widely read. No doubt Liz Cheney read it.
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