Dick Cheney and the False Nostalgia for the Good Republican

Lucian Nemoiu

A bust of former Dick Cheney is seen at the Capitol in Washington in November. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images In death, there are now two Dick Cheneys . 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

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