Charles Kesler on Never Trumpers

I predict that in a year or two we will hear no more about or from the Never Trumpers. They all will have changed their tune or slunk away.  Kesler:

As for the Right’s reassessments, every conservative publication has been forced to admit, however grudgingly, that President Trump had significant accomplishments in his first year. The Weekly Standard called his record “reasonably impressive.” But this bombshell appears alongside their default position: “Trump’s character and temperament made him unfit for office.” How to reconcile these?

Partly through wishful counterfactuals. “[S]imilar ends,” the editors assure us, “would have come from almost any Republican president given a Republican Congress.” Really? That seems far from inevitable.

Here is the counterfactual conditional I accept:

If anyone other than Trump had received the Republican nomination, he would not have beaten Hillary.