There Is Even Room In The Pro-Democracy Coalition For Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney did more than talk. He announced he was voting for Kamala Harris, and there is room for Cheney in the movement to protect American democracy.
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Dick Cheney Is Voting For Kamala Harris
Of all of the former Republican officials still alive today, the one who was least likely to ever vote for a Democratic candidate for president was Dick Cheney. It was just 20 years ago when Cheney and his neo-con policies enraged Democrats and the left by getting the United States to invade Iraq.
This moment is especially strange for me, as I began what would become my writing criticizing the invasion of Iraq and the lies that the American people were told to make the invasion a reality.
I would have never guessed in my wildest dreams that Dick Cheney would be voting for a Democrat for president. While it might be easy to suspect that Cheney’s vote is about standing with his daughter Liz, who has been doing her part to defend democracy since the 1/6 attack, I suspect there is something else at work here.
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