Trump & Supreme Court: Conservatives Justices Aren t Enough | National Review
The point being that the president is not a conservative, in the sense either of political ideology or temperament. He has some conservative sensibilities and has mastered some right-wing tropes. But he s not a conservative thinker wedded to a conservative policy agenda. That s hardly a revelation. He s not wired to think in those terms. He s not a progressive, either.
What is he, then? Does it matter? After all, he s president not because of what he is but what he isn t which is Hillary Clinton. That s fine, but Republicans and conservatives who ve been supportive of Trump should not delude themselves that things have changed, that the president has evolved into a conservative because we d like him to be one, or because he occasionally proclaims himself one.