There’s an old saying that goes, “A conservative is a liberal who’s just been mugged.” Now, things are a little more complex than that. For one thing, plenty of people have been conservatives or libertarians all along (me), while others have shifted views over time.
There are as many reasons for a change of opinion as there are people, but it’s sad beyond description when that reason is the loss of a child. But that’s what happened to Dawn Allen, who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose, and who is now listening more closely to former President Donald Trump’s tough talk on the border:
Dawn Allen wasn’t just a voting booth Democrat — she knocked on doors and donated money, including to President Joe Biden.
But after her son died from fentanyl poisoning last year, she grew frustrated by what she viewed as Biden’s hands-off approach to the opioid crisis. Now she says she…
