Cheney brings nothing to the job which a dozen of her colleagues wouldn’t. They can all raise cash and promote the party’s message. Moreover, they can do so without making themselves the story, something she is no longer capable of. Not many people will want to hear it, but Liz Cheney is expendable. Cheney’s newfound status as a lone voice telling the truth in the wilderness of Trump’s GOP has made her a convenient cudgel for a media which likes only two kinds of Republicans: dead ones and those who criticize other Republicans. But she isn’t being asked to deny that Trump lost the election, or that Biden won it, or that it wasn’t stolen, or that the riot at the Capitol wasn’t awful. She is being asked to stop talking about these issues whenever someone shoves a microphone in her face. If she wants to do that, she can, but not as a member of leadership. Being in leadership means putting the interests of the group above your own. She won’t do that. Her colleagues are justified in replacing her if she won’t fulfill her obligations to the caucus. (Even if they don’t, polls suggest her constituents likely will.) No one doubts how Mitch McConnell feels about Donald Trump. He reportedly was “pleased” with the second impeachment and “open” to convicting Trump. But when he realized the GOP was Trump all the way down, he decided discretion was the better part of valor and refused to make a self-defeating gesture that would have sabotaged the party, if not plunged it into civil war.