A few faithful rightists, like Evan McMullin and Jennifer Rubin, refuse to accept Trump’s incompetence and venality. Will their blogs and tweets force a reckoning?

By James Wolcott @ VanityFair.com, for the Summer 2017 issue

[....] Unlike the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and the post-9/11 George W. Bush, Trump 1.0 hasn’t received a unanimous “Hail, Caesar!” from those in his own party, however. Some who heckled him before heckle him still. To them, Trump doesn’t deserve a honeymoon period—he’s too destructive a bridegroom [.....] To be a conservative Republican who refuses to swear allegiance to the Trump imperium and follow the red-carpet path of Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz, and so many others into slavish finkdom is to be out of joint with a party rejoicing in victory and disparaging anyone not with the program as “cucks,” the go-to slime word of the alt-right. The anti-Trump dissenters will eventually be vindicated, as dissenters usually are, but “eventually” can last a lot longer than you think, and laurels to those able to hang tough [....]