.By Daniela Altimari, Niels Lesniewski and Mary Ellen McIntire

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral Thursday morning at Washington’s National Cathedral is, in many ways, a memorial for the Republican Old Guard.

Cheney, of course, was a foreign policy hawk and a pillar of the party’s establishment wing, which dominated American politics for decades. Some eight years after he left office, Donald Trump rose to the pinnacle of the GOP, bringing with him an isolationist worldview, brash populism and a flamboyant style that was diametrically opposed to the conservative philosophy embraced by Cheney and like-minded colleagues.

The Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol hardened the rift, with Trump lashing out against Cheney’s daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who later served on

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