the lesson of Nixon's later years (and heavily alcoholism) and Reagan's dementia and "plausible deniability" is that the GOP needs a face, while the plutocrats run the show. Chaney got his start under Nixon and was a Big Dick under Reagan.

HW Bush was the exception, but he raised taxes and generally pissed everyone off.

W and Trump are a return to form. Vance (channeling Thiel) and Stephen Miller are running the actual show.