The cruelest irony of freedom in America is that even a president is free to be an aspiring dictator as long as a majority of Americans express – through the popular vote and the Electoral College – their numerical will to keep a leader in power. More importantly, the partisan will of a political party, despite factional challenges, can protect that president, as well, from reason and truth itself if the numbers speak and the money (loudest voice of all!) keeps rolling in.