DES MOINES, Iowa — When I was walking into a Sen. Amy Klobuchar event on Saturday night, I was greeted by a volunteer who handed me an American flag. Once inside the Franklin Jr. High School gym, I spoke to a Klobuchar precinct captain who dismissed Sen. Bernie Sanders as “a Marxist.” After days of attending events touting the coming socialist revolution, I finally felt like I had landed back on planet Earth.

When you’re a conservative covering the Democratic caucuses, you know that you’re going to disagree with pretty much all of the policy proposals that you hear. But it matters who Democrats nominate. Some conservatives may be rooting for Sanders tonight, hoping that, at the minimum, it wreaks havoc among Democrats, or at best forces them to nominate a candidate who would be easy for President Trump to beat.