The life of a conservative from Reagan to Trump The world shifts, and politics along with it. You know this when you are young, from books. Later in life, you may see it for yourself, firsthand. This is both interesting and unsettling. Dislocating. I always had conservative inclinations, I suppose. When I was in college, they took political expression. I entered college in 1982. I became a convinced conservative, of the Reagan stripe. Through reading, sure — but also through the...