"One is the Cheney who was, without question, the most powerful vice-president in the history of the United States, a brilliant, ruthless, and deeply destructive man who remade the domestic and global order in less than a decade. The other is what contemporary Democrats and Republicans, bereft of real memory, perceive: a politician almost completely defined by his opposition to Donald Trump."
"Implied in this embrace was a myth that many liberals have come to accept: Trump is the defiler of a more noble Republican Party, one defined by men like George W. Bush and Cheney. Trump is the subversive, the outlaw, the unhinged autocrat running rampant over conservative traditions that once helped hold the country together. Establishment Republicans who are still wary of Trump share this view."
Two distinct Dick Cheneys exist in public perception: the vice president who reshaped domestic and global order, and the political figure largely defined by opposition to Donald Trump. Cheney exercised unprecedented vice-presidential authority, pursuing a ruthless agenda that remade policy, launched the war on terror, and expanded post-9/11 surveillance. Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump and her subsequent electoral defeat elevated her father as a symbol of conservative honor for many liberals and establishment Republicans. Many observers embraced a myth of a nobler Republican past embodied by Bush-Cheney, while Trump rose by repudiating the Iraq War and challenging neoconservative dominance.
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