What Rough Beast

It's hour come round again, slouches towards Washington?

So, it turns out I’m a conservative. Donald Trump made me so. A true conservative, I mean. Not a reactionary or a neofascist, which are the dominant strains of modern conservatism, but apparently a naive idiot who clings to a belief in outdated ideas such as the importance of institutions and the primacy of character.

Nobody is more surprised than I.

As …