At Dick Cheney’s Funeral, Talk of “Spontaneous Combustion,” Unlikely Democratic Reverence, and No Mention of Iraq

As the crowd of mourners snaked their way into Washington National Cathedral for Dick Cheney’s funeral, you could hear the rumbling of the Trump resistance. Standing in a pew in the VIP “blue” section of the church, Rachel Maddow was speaking excitedly with Dr. Anthony Fauci , former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and J. Michael Luttig , the retired judge and Trump antagonist. The subject must have been electric. “We could have spontaneous combustion!” I heard Maddow declare. One seat away, James Carville scrolled through his phone while his wife, Mary Matalin, the former Cheney aide, buttonholed old Bush-Cheney friends. The gathering could have been a convention of Trump’s enemies list: General Mark Milley , ex-CIA director John