From Trump to Cyprus: when loyalty collides with reality

The disruption caused by Donald Trump’s presidency continues to reverberate far beyond the United States. Whether in foreign policy or domestic governance, his instinct to dismiss inconvenient facts rather than confront them has become an increasingly defining feature of his administration.

The ranks of those who once supported the president unequivocally, only to later regret it, continue to grow. Mitch McConnell, Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene have all, in different ways, distanced...