This is, in fact, the rough bargain that the American right is offering to Europe at the moment. There has been a lot of talk about the potential abandonment of our European alliance by an American populism that supposedly holds the Old World in disdain. But it’s closer to the mark to say that the American right often identifies powerfully with Europe, but the Europe it wants to love is not the Europe that’s been built over the past few generations, so American conservatives are trying to alter the beloved as the price of their affection.