On Thursday morning, not long after entering Washington National Cathedral for the funeral of Dick Cheney, I ran into Rachel Maddow. She gave me a hug. A couple of minutes earlier, a starstruck usher had told me that the iconic liberal TV host was in attendance, though I hadn’t quite believed it. But then, yes, there she was. I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral. Cue the pigs flying. Hell may not yet have frozen over, but on an overcast November morning in Donald Trump’s besieged capital, there were moments when it seemed like it might have.

Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party—the Party that Cheney had loved and served until Trump, finally, caused him to walk away from it—has been a decade in the making. But there can be no better summing up of the reordering of ou

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