I n Vice President Dick Cheney’s later years, former detractors sometimes expressed puzzlement about his political trajectory. The onetime designated villain of the Iraq War had somehow mutated into a hero of the anti-Trump constitutional resistance. Had he changed? Or had they misjudged him? People do change. Perspectives can shift. But oftentimes the secret to later-life decisions is encoded in early experiences. Richard Bruce Cheney arrived in Washington in 1968 as a 27-year-old