Liz Cheney Responds to Threat of Future Imprisonment by Newt Gingrich

Sometimes, allegations are thrown around a little too easily about how a nation (particularly the present day United States) is sliding into dictatorship, into the domain of the fictional 1984. So it can be difficult to determine some kind of measure by which to judge how close we are actually getting or not.

Well, one measure might just be clues from politicians about just how powerful they believe themselves to be. When we have one former president who "joked" numerous times about serving more than his constitutionally allotted two terms in office, and we have him and other prominent members of his party suggesting that they would throw opposition politicians in jail (Presidents and members of Congress do not have the power to actually do that, yet, thankfully), then perhaps that may be a good indicator that we are getting much too close to being a totalitarian regime.

Former House leader Newt Gingrich recently echoed Trump's prison threat to Hillary during the 2016 presidential election by warning members of the committee investigating the January 6th 2020 insurrection at the Capitol building that they might be thrown in jail once the GOP grabs power again. Trump did not have the power to simply throw Hillary in jail just because of his hyped up charges against her, much like Gingrich does not have the power to throw members of Congress investigating what happened on January 6th of 2020 simply because it compromises his party and their quest for power. Indeed, this feels like a sure sign that we are sliding away from what remains of our democracy and edging ever closer to dictatorship, instead. 

What Gingrich is really doing is trying to send out a warning to get Republicans in line again. Not surprisingly, Trump was such a polarizing figure, that he even divided the previously largely united Republican Party. And the Republicans, who already had shown some signs of leaning towards outright authoritarianism, started to really lurch much more in that direction. This was yet another huge sign that proves that point. 

Below is a link to this rather depressing story. 

Liz Cheney Issues Warning After Newt Gingrich Says 1/6 Committee Members May Face Jail by Jason Lemon, January 23, 2022:  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/liz-cheney-issues-warning-after-newt-gingrich-says-1-6-committee-members-may-face-jail/ar-AAT4kyQ?ocid=ientp