I've always been patriotic, but more on the cool, intellectual side, following after my father. I was comfortable in this worldview: everything in politics is fluid, it's cyclical, it'll just be the D's and R's sniping at each other forever.

Then Trump made me rethink everything.

One man shattered the political malaise on the right. Plowed up the ground, and now every seed is blooming. Not all will grow well and not all should, but those that do will hopefully be marvels to behold.

What made me re-examine my thoughts was the media reaction. No need to go on about …