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What Dick Cheney Got Right About Trump

I didn’t agree with his endorsement of Kamala Harris. But in a new column, I argue that he was right to insist that Trump is a danger to the Constitution.

Cheney’s side of the argument over Trump lost in 2024. Enough voters didn’t share his concerns about Trump, or considered Harris worse, to put Trump back into office lawfully. Trump’s victory gave him all the legitimate powers of the presidency — along, unfortunately, with the practical ability to push the limits.

But that victory can’t erase the truth about what Trump tried to do after the 2020 election or what it confirmed about him, or make it old news to be forgotten. The conduct that so alarmed former vice president Cheney ought, for example, to affect how we think about Trump’s many comments about running for a third term in 2028. Some supporters say he is merely joking about finding a way around the Constitution’s two-term limit to provoke his opponents. Since we already know that Trump doesn’t respect constitutional limits on him, though, his critics are right to be provoked.

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