This year’s Republican National Convention featured a parade of former Donald Trump enemies kissing the former president’s ring as he accepted the party’s nomination. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who pointedly refused to endorse Trump at the 2016 convention, offered prayerful thanks to the Almighty for saving the ex-president he once opposed from a gunman’s bullet last weekend, while other former critics and foes like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and ex-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley each took the stage to shower praise on the nominee, wrote Slate columnist Jim Newell. “Why is …