These Republican men do not like mouthy, strong, bold, independent Hillary Clinton-type women. Sophia A. Nelson Opinion contributor My favorite female politician from history is the late U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Republican of Maine. She stood up against the Republican “boys club” in the 1950s when she condemned and called out another GOP authoritarian, misinformation-spreading, smearing, cancel culture warrior, Wisconsin’s Sen. Joe McCarthy. Sound familiar? Fast-forward to 2021, and Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (daughter of our 46th vice president, Dick Cheney) is Smith reborn. Like Smith, she is the lone Republican woman in leadership in a caucus run by gray-haired white men. Smith had it much harder, though, as she was the only woman in the U.S. Senate in 1950, when she became the first member of the Senate to denounce McCarthyism, in what has become known as her “Declaration of Conscience” speech.