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Most of the National Review-affiliated guys (Lowry, French, Shapiro) have more or less admitted that they were wrong with the NeverTrump thing, have given credit to Trump where rightly credit is due on many issue and have moved on. Fine.

And then there are guys like Bill Kristol and George Will who discount anything good that Trump does but still sort of promote conservative views in their other work. These guys persist in their belief that conservatives would somehow, in a way that they never seem to quite explain, have been better off with Hillary Clinton in charge.

Finally, there's a special category of NeverTrumper that has completely lost it. Two members of that group are Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot., both of the WaPo. These two ex-conservatives seem to have taken the position that Trump is wrong about everything. If Trump is for conservatism, then they're for liberalism now. They're willing to jettison beliefs that they themselves once held simply because Trump now holds them.

"Most of the National Review-affiliated guys (Lowry, French, Shapiro) have more or less admitted that they were wrong..."

Not so with Goldberg, Williamson, Cooke, Nordlinger, even French can't really shake it. They seem to be in it for the long haul.

I agree with you completely. IMHO, we can talk about winning all we want, but considering the formidable array against us (press, academia, corporate boards, even some in upper echelons of LE or military), the future of America is still on a knife edge. Guys like Shapiro and French (though French still has some coming around to do) are sharp as tacks and I am more than happy to have them on my side.

OTOH, Rubin, Frum, Schmidt, Will, etc. have not been worth anything for years (or maybe ever) and they are welcome to ESAD.