Worshipping at the altar of trump

At the annual gathering for conservative activists in the Gaylord Convention Centre in Maryland last week, the unquestioning adoration of Trump showed no signs of abating, despite the controversies surrounding the US president

US vice-president Mike Pence speaks during Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2019

‘Hey Dude!!! DUUUDDDDEE! Oh my God, this is so AWESOME! It’s Don jr!!” The shout goes up and within seconds a stampede ensues. A hirsute Donald Trump jr, sporting his trademark pink arrives to take the temperature at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2019 and finds, to his evident satisfaction, that it is sizzling hot.

Surrounded by a phalanx of secret service agents and television cameras he struts through the entrance ...