Anyway, Ivana Stradner, who comes from the former Yugoslavia, tweeted, “Ronald Reagan is my hero and one of the most important reasons to move and live in the U.S. My family adores Reagan and Thatcher.”

To which I can only say: Say it loud, say it proud, and be not ashamed.

For the last several years, we have seen a great deal of body-snatching and shape-shifting. Evolution, if you will. People are shedding their old beliefs and values, and donning new ones. Hawks have become neo-isolationist. Internationalists have become America Firsters. Free-marketeers have become neo-protectionist. Limited-government men have become big-government paternalists. People who preached character now accuse others of “moral preening.” And so on and so forth.

David French says he has been a Reagan conservative since he was 14. I have been one since I was about 19, 20. Is there something wrong with us? Are we immune to change, immune to evolution? No. I have changed my mind, or evolved, on some things, and so has David. But an enduring set of beliefs and values seems right to us. If those things ever seem wrong to me, I will discard them. But until then . . . you know?