Mayer: Never-Trumpers start to reconsider As we come to the end of Trump’s first year in office, a remarkable number of those Never-Trump conservatives have changed their minds. Whatever else may be said of Trump’s first year, he did not turn out to be a closet liberal. So is it time for conservative Never-Trumpers to quit their complaining and join the bandwagon? Even Powerline, one of the best of the conservative blogs and by no means a knee-jerk Trump supporter, recently ran a post entitled “It Is Time to Pull the Plug on Never-Trumpism.” Boston Herald