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Liz Cheney

US Representative from Wyoming, 2017 to 2023

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A hawkish Republican who broke with her party to vice-chair the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, and lost her primary in 2022.

Liz Cheney sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, strongly strength-first on war and peace and strongly interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Liz Cheney sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Liz Cheney

Mitt Romney US Senator from Utah, 2019 to 202599%Mitch McConnell US Senate Republican leader, 2007 to 202599%José María Aznar Prime Minister of Spain, 1996 to 200499%Niall Ferguson Scottish-American historian99%Dwight D. Eisenhower US President, 1953 to 196199%Friedrich Merz Chancellor of Germany, 2025 to present99%John McCain US Senator from Arizona, 1987 to 201899%Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2022 to 202498%

People furthest from Liz Cheney

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19402%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19803%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20063%Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist and naturalist, 1842 to 19214%

Political views closest to Liz Cheney

NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…99%Liberal conservatismCombines free markets and limited government with respect for institutions, tradition…98%Hawkish realismSees the world as a contest between states, where military strength and alliances secure…96%One-nation conservatismA paternalist conservatism holding that the better off owe duties to the poor and to…91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: US House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.