The Cult of Trump

Whatever the Republican Party once was; whatever Republicans still imagine themselves to be—the party of Lincoln, the party of Reagan, stalwarts of free markets, the rule of law or fiscal and social conservatism—it is clear to this observer, who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, that today's GOP leadership has become the single gravest danger to the American Union since this country's Civil War.

No external or internal calamity in the intervening 160 years has divided us in a manner remotely similar to that now caused by the slavish devotion of some to one unworthy man, while you, dear friend, if you remain in the Cult of Trump, have utterly forgotten or forsaken what it means to be American.