Think about how times have changed. A few years ago, Democrats and their Leftmedia lickspittles couldn’t so much as utter the name “Dick Cheney” without calling him a “draft-dodging neoconservative” or a “chickenhawk.”

Those days are long gone, though, and the American political landscape has since been turned on its head by Donald Trump, the blue-collar billionaire.

Gone are the days of Republican military adventurism and nation-building, however well-intentioned. These days, the remade Republican Party stands for a strong, America-First foreign policy, but a more sensible one when it comes to committing our troops to war.

Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, is actually campaigning with Cheney’s daughter Liz, the resoundingly rejected former Republican congresswoman whose only common political bond with Harris is a visceral hatred of Donald Trump. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.

This brings us to Trump’s comments on Thursday in Glendale, Arizona, during a discussion with Tucker Carlson, which caused a phony furor in the mainstream media. Trump said of Liz Cheney, who’s been likening him to Hitler and Mussolini of late, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay, let’s see how she feels about it. You know when the guns are trained on her face — you know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building.”

It was typical New York City Trumpian brashness, but at its heart was a fundamental truth: Folks who have experienced war firsthand tend to be more thoughtful about committing others to combat.

As English novelist Philippa Gregory has said, “There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier.” Or, as General Douglas MacArthur put it, “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”

Trump, of course, knows of what he speaks when he talks about having guns trained on him. As does the poor guy who once went hunting with Dick Cheney.

And yet, how did the mainstream media spin Trump’s comments? In a since-edited headline, Reuters blared, “Trump suggests Liz Cheney should face firing squad for her foreign policy stance.”

The “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact couldn’t keep from lying, either. Their headline reads, “In Context: What former President Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney facing a firing squad.”

A firing squad? Trump said nothing of the sort. He never even uttered the term. The mainstream media magicians made those fake words appear out of thin air. All Trump did was suggest that maybe, just maybe, Liz Cheney and her ilk should have a bit more empathy for our warrior class. Maybe they should, you know, have a bit of skin in the game before beating the drum so fervently for war. And, yes, maybe she might benefit from having some guns trained on her like our warriors did when they were going house-to-house in Fallujah. Maybe she should’ve tried riding through the streets of Kirkuk in a soft-skinned Humvee, where Iranian-made explosively formed penetrators were slicing through our vehicles and cutting down our young people.

And so, the mainstream media, desperate to change the subject from talk of garbage and intelligent women and such, lied once again. And Trump-haters like Jonah Goldberg dutifully lapped it up. But to his “credit,” Goldberg at least retracted his own vile smear, albeit while adding more smears.

Still, that retraction is more than we can say for the Trump-deranged Democrats and their mainstream media trucklings.