Nine months ago, when the Obama administration first issued guidance for public schools to accommodate–and end discrimination against–transgender students, National Review staff writer David French argued that then-President Barack Obama “just destroyed the traditional American public school” by “drafting every single public educational institution in the country to implement the extreme edge of the sexual revolution.” French spoke for many conservatives, especially social conservatives, who deduce the need for sex-segregated bathrooms from “the existence of the two sexes.”

To French’s credit, he is ideologically consistent: Today he celebrates the Trump administration’s withdrawal of that guidance. He points to no instances of transgender children trampling on the freedoms of their classmates, and is silent about the fact that this move will make life harder for those children. Nevertheless, he concludes, “given the letter’s radicalism, breadth, and lawlessness, repealing it should have been an easy administrative call.”

French opposed Trump’s nomination and even briefly considered running against Trump and Hillary Clinton on a third-party ticket. These days he’s more likely to praise Trump for implementing conservative policies than to criticize him, sparing most of his ire for liberals who oppose Trump consistently. But this is the appropriate posture for members of the “Never Trump” movement, which failed in the most pathetic and humiliating way precisely because it was premised on large areas of substantive agreement with Trump and a broad (though not universal) consensus that Trump was preferable to mainstream liberalism.

If anything, though, it is more common for Never Trumpers to ignore Trump’s tributes to conservatism than to praise them. Setting aside areas of obvious conservative consensus, like Trump’s decision to nominate judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Trump’s efforts to upend Obama administration immigration, anti-discrimination, and health care policies have generated immense discontent in the country, and thus have driven the president’s natural allies away. Many of the conservatives who pushed those very policies in the Obama years are nowhere to be found.

The Trump administration’s most stark departure from Obama-era policy is its rethinking of immigration-enforcement priorities. For much of Obama’s presidency, law-abiding immigrants living in the interior of the country were generally held safe from deportation, while enforcement authorities devoted resources toward deporting violent criminals and recent arrivals. Under Trump, by contrast, nearly every undocumented immigrant in the country is vulnerable to deportation.