There is a faded blue rosette above my desk. In the middle of this staple of British campaigning, which when I wore it made me feel like I had won the pie-eating contest at the county fair, is a vintage campaign button that says “Love Maggie.”

I wore it when I was working for Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party in Britain back in 1979. Though I am not sure anyone ever called her Maggie to her face, it was a nickname her supporters gave her early on in her political life.