When you're at the bottom, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by tearing it all down. People know the game is rigged against them. And they're not wrong.
It is tragically fitting that Cheney, late in life, expressed alarm at Trump’s autocratic tendencies. Metaphorically speaking, Dick Cheney built Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, giving unchecked power to a megalomaniac who could not be controlled.
