Michael Knowles

And I'm old enough to remember when the right loved Dick Cheney.

And in fact, many liked Cheney more than they liked Bush, because Cheney was sort of cartoonishly tough.

And Bush seemed like a real nice guy.

Now that's flipped because Dick Cheney's daughter was a political opponent of Trump within the Republican Party.

And Cheney, good father, stood by his daughter and that made an enemy of Trump.

And so he seemed to kind of flip sides.

And also because Cheney was the representative of an expansionist

hardline, neoconservative foreign policy, a driver of the wars in the Middle East, which the American right loved in the 2000s.

The American left hated in the 2000s.

Now, they basically flipped.

And the American right hates them.

And the American left still doesn't love them.

But you'll see more defenders of the imperial wars on the American left.

And the whole political situation is topsy-turvy.

I, however, believe that, well, one, because Dick Cheney is our fellow man, but also because Dick Cheney is a fellow Republican, longtime conservative, guy who came basically from nothing and had all sorts of personal problems and then ends up at a very young age.

I think he was 31 years old.

He was chief of staff to Jerry Ford and worked his way up in politics, was the defense secretary under Bush I, then was the vice president under Bush II, very powerful vice president.

I think we pray for Dick Cheney also because I'm Catholic and we pray for the dead.

I think we should pray for Dick Cheney.

We should say a little RIP.