WASHINGTON >> An unlikely mix of Republicans and Democrats came together today to pay tribute to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who helped shape the nation’s aggressive response to terrorism after Sept. 11, 2001, and transformed his office into a powerful platform to drive policy.

Led by former President George W. Bush, the mourners who gathered in the grand and cavernous Washington National Cathedral included an array of veterans of their administration as well as a number of Democrats who once despised Cheney but came to admire him late in life for his outspoken opposition to President Donald Trump.

In a sign of how much politics has changed in recent years, Trump and Vice President JD Vance, the stewards of the current Republican administration, were not invited, but Rachel Maddow

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