The great British statesman Enoch Powell observed nearly 50 years ago: “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” Dick Cheney is no exception to Powell’s hard rule.

Our newspapers and publications in the coming days will be rife with surreal and false remembrances of the former vice president, who died Tuesday , age 84.

Surreal, because Democrats who spent a lifetime vilifying the man will laud him in death as a great statesman who opposed President Donald Trump and the populist right, while members of his own party will hold his legacy in significantly lower esteem.

Fake, because political commentators are incapable of remembering a time before Trump and can only "rememb

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