"The funeral of the 46th US vice-president, Dick Cheney, who died earlier this month aged 84, was a throwback to a less raucous and rancorous time. Ex-presidents and vice-presidents, Democratic and Republican, made small talk, but Donald Trump, who spent Thursday crying treason and calling for Democrats to be put to death, and his deputy JD Vance were not invited."
"Then two hours of plangent music, solemn processions and tearful eulogies beneath stained glass and a soaring vaulted ceiling amounted to a requiem for the Republican party. Cheney used to be known as its Darth Vader and, fittingly, the neo-Gothic church's exterior boasts a hand-carved grotesque of the Star Wars character. Vader terrorised the galaxy but saved his son and renounced the dark side of the Force on his deathbed."
Bill Kristol was spotted at a men's urinal conversing with Chris Wallace, and James Carville, Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow sat close to one another in the nave. Donald Trump and his deputy JD Vance were not invited, after Trump spent Thursday crying treason and calling for Democrats to be put to death. More than a thousand guests watched military pallbearers lower Cheney's flag-draped casket, followed by two hours of music, processions and eulogies that amounted to a requiem for the Republican party. Cheney, once likened to Darth Vader, defended his daughter and democracy from Trump while his expansion of executive power under the war on terror left a legacy that helped enable later assaults on civil liberties. Joe Biden's attendance carried an ironic note given his own political role in recent years.
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