"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 our politics in this era than the scene on Thursday in that lovely church where Washington marks the passing of its giants."
"On hand to say goodbye to the former Vice-President, who shaped the post-9/11 world with a belief in the unchecked exercise of American power, making him perhaps the most divisive figure in public life until Trump himself, were Nancy Pelosi and Dan Quayle, Mitch McConnell and Adam Schiff, James Carville and Karl Rove. Joe Biden took the Amtrak down from Delaware, even though it was his eighty-third birthday."
Rachel Maddow hugged an attendee at Dick Cheney's funeral at Washington National Cathedral, surprising other mourners. The service gathered a cross-section of Washington figures: Nancy Pelosi, Dan Quayle, Mitch McConnell, Adam Schiff, James Carville, Karl Rove, Al Gore, Margaret Tutwiler, Elliott Abrams, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mike Pence. Cheney is credited with shaping the post-9/11 world through a belief in the unchecked exercise of American power. Donald Trump and senior members of his administration were absent; J.D. Vance was not invited and the Republican Speaker did not attend. Cheney had distanced himself from the Republican Party after Trump's takeover.
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