The dying of Dick Cheney, who wielded huge energy as U.S. vp, occasioned a wave of commentary and commemorations — with specific curiosity within the destiny of his legacy within the face of fast political change. For many years, Cheney was “the final word GOP insider,” my colleague Karen Tumulty writes, a Washington energy dealer usually caricatured because the shadowy puppet grasp looming over President George W. Bush’s two phrases. However in his last years, he discovered himself and his politics on the opposite facet of a schism with President Donald Trump and the MAGA motion that had captured and reshaped the Republican Get together.
