“Nothing about Trump should now cast Cheney in a more favourable light. In truth they represent different versions – each nearly a caricature – of the American ruling class. Trump is a vain, imbecilic Master of the Universe who has sleazed his way to the top – first of the Manhattan real estate world, and now the American state.
“Cheney is a cunning, ass-kicking oil man, expert at quietly playing a rigged system for profit and imperial power. Trump is both more loathsome as a personality and easier to laugh at. But Cheney, to this point, has proven more dangerous. Ask the weeping mother of Afghanistan and Iraq and the men shattered by their torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo.”