It may not be law, but it's great standard and guiding principle. Breathing free should be beacon the U.S. offers to those stifled in oppression -- physical, economic, societal -- around the world.

And as you well know, I no more have a "liberal mindset" than did Attila the Hun. I am, however, an unabashed advocate for spreading liberty and offering it to those who want it. That separates conservatism from whatever it is President Trump espouses.