The Liz Cheney Lesson

I was really hoping that the people of Wyoming would applaud Liz for her courage and integrity and prove the pundits wrong. Her concession speech ,” I love my country over party” made me clap. (Her speech can be watched here: Cheney Concession Speech.
How odd that she has become heroic, a conservative Republican I disagree with politically on every issue, who has become an exemplar of principle and truth, one of the few remaining in public life.
With everything I know about human nature and history, I still don’t understand the attraction of deception and hypocrisy and cultism. It’s mind boggling to me that while the FBI is raiding his home for stolen documents his candidates are winning their primaries. How can this be?