In death, there are now two Dick Cheneys .

One is the Cheney who was, without question, the most powerful vice-president in the history of the United States, a brilliant, ruthless, and deeply destructive man who remade the domestic and global order in less than a decade. The other is what contemporary Democrats and Republicans, bereft of real memory, perceive: a politician almost completely defined by his opposition to Donald Trump. Cheney’s daughter, Liz, was a proud conservative congresswoman who voted to impeach Trump after January 6; for her bravery, she faced down a Trump-backed challenger and lost badly. Her father, naturally, took umbrage, and he came to represent, for many liberals, the honor that Republicans in the Trump age had supposedly lost. Cheney was, by last year, so reh

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