‘You tell a lot of good stories about Reagan, like his saying a prayer for the man who shot him,’ a friend reading my book said – then laughed, ‘But I wish you’d been kinder to Trump.’

He’s a conservative. Reagan was a conservative. Trump’s now head of the Republican Party. So he sees Trump as conservative.

That’s not unusual, I hear it all the time talking with old friends. But consider this: Last week, Trump told Mike Johnson to get rid of the ‘Debt Ceiling Limit.’ Nancy Pelosi agreed. And Elizabeth Warren posted, ‘I agree with Trump.’

Rolling on, Trump said any Republican congressman who disagrees with him should face a primary. Trump holds an iron grip on Republican primary voters – and that’s a real threat. What Republican congressman wants a fight with him?

But borrowing money lets Washington spend money it doesn’t have. Most conservatives frown on that. But the days when politics was about conservatives battling liberals are gone. There’s no such thing as a ‘conservative party’ these days.

Instead, when it comes to getting rid of debt ceiling limits, up in Washington we’ve got Trump, Pelosi, and Warren agreeing.

Who’d have expected that?