Cheneys and failed politicians are irrelevant

OPINION:

The mainstream media want you to believe that former Rep. Liz Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, are relevant. They are not. The same goes for former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.

After nearly four years of inflation, division, record overdoses, open borders, war and foreign policy catastrophes around the globe, the American people are in no mood for stale political parlor games.

By now, it should come as no surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris’ allies in the liberal media want everyone to focus on the noise coming from a handful of “never Trump” Republicans instead of the disastrous four years under the failed leadership of President Biden and Ms. Harris. It won’t work in 2024; the state of the union is too dire.

Trump-deranged liberals in the media are happy to play ball with the Cheneys and their fellow has-beens.

Why wouldn’t they? By obsessing over meaningless endorsements from people who used to have titles, political activists in the media get to attack former President Donald Trump while driving home the fact that Ms. Cheney and the others are unprincipled hacks playing their last available political hand. At the end of the day, it’s just another Hail Mary launched out of desperation by defenders of a failed status quo.

Mr. Trump makes his political enemies lose their minds. For decades, the Cheneys ran around the country masquerading as principled conservatives who could be trusted. Now, they’re endorsing Ms. Harris, the most radical left-wing nominee for president ever. And let’s not forget the mainstream media in all this, as it embraces the Cheneys after happily labeling former Mr. Cheney as public enemy No. 1 for years.

Many believe the endorsements by the Cheneys and Mr. Flake, Mr. Kinzinger and Mr. Duncan are contrived and made out of spite because these former officeholders have no political future in a Trump administration. What’s worse is that they all know full well how destructive the policies of Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have been, yet they throw their support behind more of the same — the American people be damned.

They know that Mr. Trump’s economic plan will kick-start the economy, that his immigration policies will secure the border and that his peace-through-strength approach to foreign policy will put our adversaries on notice again. In the face of all this, Cheney and company choose more malaise, open borders and weakness abroad.

Ms. Cheney and others like to defame Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy because of Jan. 6, 2021. They swear it up and down as they support Ms. Harris, who was installed in a coup as her party’s nominee without a single vote and by removing Mr. Biden, who received 14 million votes in the Democratic primaries. What Ms. Cheney doesn’t understand is that Jan. 6 isn’t on voters’ minds anymore.

Instead, voters are rightly focused on the inflation, illegal immigration, and crime crises that Ms. Harris’ policies have created.

If Ms. Cheney truly cared about law and order, she wouldn’t be supporting the candidate who fanned the flames of the “defund the police” movement when law and order mattered most.

The Cheneys, Mr. Flake, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Kinzinger have one thing in common. They’re all politicians who know the value of providing a distraction for a candidate who doesn’t have the issues on his or her side. And that’s exactly what they’re attempting to pull off for Kamala Harris, perhaps the least prepared and least talented presidential nominee in our nation’s history.

Thankfully, the American people aren’t buying the ploys of failed politicians trying to become relevant again.

On Nov. 5, voters will choose the peace and prosperity that Mr. Trump offers because he has already delivered it once before. They’re sick and tired of the chaos and carnage Ms. Harris presides over and are poised to turn the page.

This is a change election, and nothing will change that fact.

• David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United and served as deputy campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for President.