Andrew Sullivan: “There was something perfect about the Supreme Court’s review of President Trump’s tariff spree the week Dick Cheney passed away. What the court was weighing, after all, was Cheney’s core legacy: the limitless executive power now claimed by Cheney’s Frankenstein monster, Trump.”“In that sense, Dick Cheney pioneered the Trump presidency. Without Cheney and Addington, no Trump and Vought. Cheney was never a constitutional conservative; he was always an extremist, a pioneer of an elected, unaccountable, and secret monarchy that has reached its zenith in the GOP today. His attempt to cast himself in recent years as some kind of principled, old-school constitutional Republican is classic Cheney: i.e. shameless misdirection, calculated spin, and a big fat lie.”
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I agree completely with this article and it supports my contention that the Republicans actually created Trump.
I have always said that Donald ‘pimped’ the party ….
Yes Cheney made it possible….
Am I wrong in remembering that Bush II threw Cheney out of the boat in the end?
After 9/11, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was able to work out a national-security bill in committee that satisfied both Bob Barr (R-Ga) and Maxine Waters (D-Ca), plus most of the other committee members.
But when it got to the floor of the House, the Bush-Cheney administration was able to force enough last-minute (not even printed-out) amendments and loopholes that we ended up with the authoritarian U.S.A. Patriot Act, that is so useful — both inherently and the results under Bush-Cheney — to the authoritarian schemes of Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Pam Bondi.
History tends to change the rough spots, eh?