A reckoning for #NeverTrump? Trump’s first year has not been a disaster

Published January 20, 2018 5:01am ET



As President Trump’s first full year in office comes to a close, a chorus has erupted among the pro-Trump and anti-anti-Trump corners of the conservative punditry. His first year has seen genuine conservative policy achievements, including the seating of a conservative Supreme Court justice and a major piece of tax reform legislation that accomplished many longtime conservative legislative goals. He’s certainly been better at implementing conservative ideals than a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been.

So is it time, one year into Trump’s presidency, for the anti-Trump conservatives (me included) to lay down their arms, issue their apologia, and accept that they were wrong about Trump?

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