Donald Trump. Photo: © Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock How is it possible that the Republican Party, at the peak of American power and at the new dawn of the country’s 250th anniversary, became a cult of personality around a leader they know to be a felon, a liar, and a danger to the constitutional order? Psychologically, this is about a party deciding that its survival, status, and identity are inseparable from one man. Philosophically, it is about how freedom erodes from within when citizens and leaders willingly trade truth, institutions, and future generations for immediate power, protection, and psychic gratification. How a...