Cheney pain Where do anti-Trump Republicans go now?

She knew the price of defying Donald Trump but did it anyway. Liz Cheney, crushed in a primary election in Wyoming, was anointed by supporters and commentators as leader of the Republican resistance to the former US president.

- David Smith

But that invited a question: what resistance? Admirers of the three-term congresswoman who lost her House seat to a Trump-backed challenger warn that she could find herself a general without an army.

In her concession speech in Jackson, Wyoming, last Tuesday, where she lost to the conservative lawyer Harriet Hageman by 36 points, Cheney pointed out that if she had been willing to parrot Trump’s election lies, she would have remained in Congress. Instead she voted to impeach him and, as vice-chair of the January 6 committee, eviscerated him on primetime TV.

Having transferred leftover campaign funds into an entity called The Great Task, and hinted at a presidential run, she seems determined to embrace her status as the face of the Never Trump movement.