Now even Steve Hayward is gnashing his teeth tonight — about losing the support of a guy who’s long been to the right of Attila the Hun — ever since Nixon’s time in the White House.

And like his co-hosts, he cannot admit what all others do see.

To be sure, though I disagree vehemently with their conceptions of the “unitary executive” (see that one — and about 100 other posts, at that now mostly-mothballed property), the theory of a single unitary executive acting as one, with all its power… absolutely cannot survive, with a corrupt felon in the seat. These folks’ worldview is that a President is very nearly a king. [And even so, or perhaps because of that, they well-know that the unchecked power means this must be an exceedingly moral man or woman in the seat.]

And after 260 years or more of experience, they recognize that any malign actor — in a role that powerful (leading the free world)… very soon could end… the free world.

So from that perspective, it makes absolutely perfect sense that Dick Cheney will not support a 34 time convicted felon to be king.

Hilarious.

I think the Powerline boys know… Cheney was a giant wooden stake — into the throat — of the once (but no longer) Teflon Don.

Onward.