[Army Air Corps]

Some people were in his cult, not all.
For the most part, statists have an affinity for Cults of Personality. Your example is more an outlier among conservatives.

[HLPhat]

America has been engineered into a culture of celebrity. Romans chapter 1 describes how that works out.

[cgbg]

The Clinton cult had a pyramid structure—each level knows less than the level above it—the criminal enterprise is known in full only by those at the very top.