When senate minority leader Mitch McConnell rose to cast Kentucky's votes for the convicted felon rapist, giving a grin and a thumbs up, the crowd booed him. Nikki Haley was invited to speak at the convention if she would agree to kiss the ring and she did so, after just a few months ago saying this: "Many of the same politicians publicly embrace Trump, privately dread him. They know what a disaster he's been and will continue to be. They are just too afraid to say it out loud. I'm not afraid to say the hard truth out loud. I feel no need to kiss the ring."

The Republican National Convention did not invite former president George W Bush, former republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former republican vice president Dick Cheney, nor former republican House Speaker Paul Ryan because they would have been booed off the stage by the crowd. If they were alive today, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and John McCain would be booed by the crowd, as well.

And all for a rapist who was convicted on 34 counts of business fraud, fined hundreds of millions of dollars for defamation, was impeached twice, staged a coup, called American war dead suckers and losers, quotes Hitler, praises dictators and said he'll be one if elected, wants to leave NATO, said he'll abandon Ukraine to Russia, had his charity shut down for spending charitable contributions on himself, bankrupted casinos, hotels, Trump Shuttle, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, and Trump Water, who lies with every breath, believes wind turbines cause cancer, thinks electric-powered airplanes will drop from the sky when it's cloudy, never talks policy or solutions but loves to contemplate dying by boat battery electrocution versus being eaten by a shark, and thought there were airports during the Revolutionary War.

Ah, the Grand Old Party is dead and gone.

But it's not a cult.