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Letters | US Republicans will come around and agree with Liz Cheney rather than Donald Trump
- The current Republican leadership is more flexible than the Vatican of the early modern era and will realise their party is more than Donald Trump
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The conflict between US Representative Liz Cheney and the Republican leadership is basically a factual disagreement (“Defiant Liz Cheney tears into Donald Trump, Republican Party, before expected ouster”, May 12). Cheney believes that US President Joe Biden was legitimately elected, and the Republican Party leadership believes the election was stolen.
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Perhaps the most famous factual disagreement between those with knowledge and those with authority was over the structure of the solar system. Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and others asserted that the sun was at the centre of the solar system. The Catholic Church held that the sun rotated around the Earth.
It took many years before religious authorities accepted the findings of astronomers. Many of those astronomers died before their findings were accepted.
I think that the current Republican leadership is more flexible than the Vatican of the early modern era. I believe Cheney will live to see the day when the leadership realises that the Republican Party does not revolve around Donald Trump.
Bruce Couchman, Ottawa, Canada
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