In praise of Liz Cheney. May we have more politicians like her | Robert Reich

We need more politicians who stand by their principles, even if it costs them everything

On Tuesday, Wyoming Republicans determine the fate of Representative Liz Cheney, the putative leader of the anti-Trump forces in the Republican party.

Six days after the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol - when no other Republican in the House or Senate was willing to rebuke Trump - Cheney charged on the House floor that the president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing."

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com