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Lots of Never Trumpism (especially that National Review issue) was premised on 1. Trump losing and 2. If he won, not governing as a conservative. So when he won and let Heritage do domestic policy and the Federalist Society do judges, the entire project became obsolete
So, like, it would be really weird for a sitting republican legislator to be anti trump, let alone a conservative pundit. He’s the leader of their movement and party and is mostly doing stuff they agree with. Ethic of responsibility!
And so it’s not surprising that consistent never trumpers either overwhelmingly care about one policy issue that they disagree with trump about (Kristol, Boot) or were already heterodox pre-Trump (Douthat, Forum)
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