Stefanik wants to be seen as a victim — despite what actually happened. (via MaddowBlog)
To hear her tell it, Stefanik, who was certainly criticized for engaging in such radicalism, was “canceled.” What actually happened, however, was that she was: Then-House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney insisted on defending her democracy and the legitimacy of election results, so GOP lawmakers ousted her from her leadership position and handed the job to Stefanik.
But she wasn’t. When a rank-and-file member of the House is elevated to a leadership post, that’s not an example of being “canceled,” it’s the opposite. The implication seemed to be that Stefanik took umbrage to being criticized, simply because she joined with her radical colleagues as part of a partisan plot to undo the results of a free and fair election. Listening to her complain yesterday, it was as if the GOP lawmaker effectively argued, “A bunch of people gave me a hard time just because I tried to throw out a few million Americans’ votes for no reason.