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Though badly bruised from its pummelling at the polls on September 3, the People’s National Party (PNP) will recover from its worst electoral beating in 40 years, elder statesman P.J. Patterson has said. But the former prime minister and party...
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More than 600,000 people took part in the vote over the weekend, designed to narrow down the number of pro-democracy candidates in September elections to the city's legislature. Similar efforts have been tried in previous years, but this was the most organized yet, as the opposition aims to seize a historic majority in spite of huge obstacles, not least the new security law.
Imposed by Beijing on the city on July 1, the legislation criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces. Officials have insisted it will only apply to a tiny handful of Hong Kongers, as critics pointed to its broad scope and ill-defined offenses as reason for alarm.
In a statement late Monday night, the Liaison Office, Beijing's top representative to Hong Kong, appeared to confirm those fears, saying the primary election contravened the law and raising the possibility hundreds of thousands of people were now implicated in an offense.
\"With the support of external forces, opposition groups and leaders have deliberately devised plans to hold this so-called 'primary election,' which is a serious provocation to the current electoral system and caused serious damage to the fairness and justice of the Legislative Council elections,\" the Liaison Office said.
The statement came after the Hong Kong government said it was \"conducting an in-depth investigation\" into the primary, and would \"immediately refer the case to relevant law enforcement agencies\" if there was any illegal activity.
One chief complaint of the government was organizers' stated goal of achieving a 35-seat parliamentary majority, allowing the opposition to block legislation and potentially force the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
\"If this so-called primary election's purpose is to achieve the ultimate goal of delivering what they called '35-plus' with the objective of objecting or resisting every policy initiative of the HKSAR government, it may fall into the category of subverting the state power -- one of the four types of offenses under the national security law,\" Lam said Monday.
The Liaison Office statement went further, accusing Benny Tai, the onetime leader of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement and organizer of the primary, of scheming to \"seize the governance of Hong Kong and stage a 'color revolution'.\"
\"Who instructed (Tai) to openly manipulate the election in so high-profile a manner? Who gave him such confidence?\" the statement added, without providing any evidence or suggestion of who Tai was supposed to have colluded with.
Tai, who could not immediately be reached for comment, could face at least 10 years and up to life imprisonment if found guilty under the security law of colluding with a foreign power in \"rigging or undermining an election.\"
Nor might he be the only person punished. Antony Dapiran, a Hong Kong-based lawyer and author of \"City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong,\" predicted that after Beijing's statement declaring the primary illegal, the gove
What happened Tuesday in the House Republican conference meeting is not one of those times.
Here's CNN reporting of what went down:
\"Several House Republicans attacked House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming during a conference meeting Tuesday morning for supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci and splitting with President Donald Trump on a variety of issues over the past few months, three sources who were in the room told CNN.
\"Members including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ralph Norman of South Carolina all chimed in to air grievances against Cheney.\"
A gang-up on a member of GOP leadership doesn't just happen. Particularly not when the group of members who went after Cheney include some of the most high-profile members of the House Freedom Caucus, which also doubles as a bloc of President Donald Trump's most loyal allies. Make no mistake: This was a concerted act to force Cheney back into line with Trump or, at the very least, to know he (and they) were watching her very, very closely.
You still might be wondering: So what? Trump doesn't like when Republicans disagree with him. His congressional minions make sure the apostate is aware of the danger in which she is putting herself. In another administration, maybe that's a big story. In the Trump administration? That's just Tuesday.
Here's why it matters: What played out behind closed doors on Tuesday among Republicans is one of a series of small stirrings in the coming fight for what the Republican Party after Trump might look like.
\"Griping at leadership is basically the defining characteristic of a House GOP Conference meeting,\" tweeted Brendan Buck, who worked for two Republican speakers -- John Boehner and Paul Ryan. \"But an ambush like this against one member is actually quite rare. Hard not to look at it as the opening volley in the fight over a potential post-Trump GOP.\"
That is exactly right. And like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's stepped-up criticism of Trump and Republicans who have enabled him, Cheney is playing the long game -- and making a big bet: That the post-Trump party will have a lane of not-insignificant size for traditional conservatives who balk at some of Trump's governmental and Constitutional largesses.
What Cheney is doing here is trying to preserve a version of the Republican Party that resembles the banner under which George W. Bush and her father, Dick Cheney, won two national elections last decade. Lower taxes and conservative judges, yes. But also a belief in moral rightness, in conservative values, in respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.
It's not dissimilar to what then-Speaker Ryan attempted to do in the run-up to the 2016 election -- distancing himself (and his House candidates) from Trump in the wake of the \"Access Hollywood\" scandal. Ryan eventually gave up on that fight, however, and endorsed Trump -- albeit without much joy. Sick
