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You Believed the Slogan on the Placard. Then Someone With a Microphone Told You to Leave. You came to a state political convention in Houston believing what the convention materials said. Unity drives victory. You wore the lanyard. You walked the floor. If you were a registered delegate, you cast votes in the business of your party. If you stood in the back of a panel room and spoke up when someone on stage said something false about your own faith, you did what a citizen in a democracy is supposed to do — you corrected a public lie in a public room. What followed was not debate. It was not disagreement. It was not even the rough give-and-take of political life. It was a sitting state senator telling the audience that your religion requires you to lie. It was a former Southern Baptist pastor with a national platform telling the same room that, given political power, you would cut off his head. It was the outgoing chair of the state party, speaking from the stage, advising you by name to leave the caucus. And when you asked the pastor, voice breaking, What do you want me to do, leave?…