First David Mamet, now … Robert Downey Jr.? His New York Times interview offers a suggestion of creeping conservatism. You be the judge:

“I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.”

How could he not end up conservative eventually? He’s a Reagan-era icon who picked up Molly Ringwald in a movie. And he was in Weird Science, where he had a chance to pick up insights on the Second Amendment from Chet: