Multiple choice: Which 2016 presidential candidate should this voter support?

She opposes hate-crime and hate-speech legislation. She dislikes fat taxes; she does like flat taxes. She regards prohibitions of smoking on beaches, or of using electronic cigarettes in public spaces, as evidentially unsupported and merely vengeful. She believes the federal government has bloated all out of proportion to its original purpose. She sees the federal, state and local governments commanding 38 percent of the economy as a fundamental infringement on our liberty. She perceives American business as over-regulated, and the United States’ levying the third highest corporation tax in the world as economically idiotic. She resists the welfare state and affirmative action.

Easy — this red-state rube can take her pick. But it gets trickier.

She is also pro-choice and endorses same-sex marriage. She opposes school prayer. She is outraged about abuse of police powers, particularly in black communities. She disapproves of farm subsidies and other congressional backhanders to big business. She abhors widespread state surveillance of Americans’ emails and phone calls. She would decriminalize assisted suicide, prostitution and not only marijuana but all drugs. She believes anyone should be free to publish visual depictions of Mohammed. While a feminist, she wouldn’t restrict pornography, however grossly misogynistic. She is skeptical of foreign military interventions, most of which, during her lifetime, don’t seem to have resulted in any real net gain for the United States.

If you guessed Rand Paul, that Kentucky senator may minimally approximate this voter’s positions, save for the fact that, as of last week, Rand Paul has left the building. No loss, if for our prototype, as for many American women, Mr. Paul’s anti-abortion stance crosses a red line. Which it does. For no surprise — “she” is I.

The mainstream of neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party (insofar as it has a mainstream anymore) represents my views, which qualify as left-wing or right-wing only on the basis of “eeny meeny miny moe.” During the nine months a year I live in London, I’m regarded as an archconservative nut. When I fly home to the United States, I transform, mid-Atlantic, to a leftist radical — with the same opinions. That’s because most of my progressive social positions are taken as the norm in Britain by just about everybody.