During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney was one of the leading voices encouraging his party to pick someone — anyone — but President Donald Trump. Romney was very clear, and very public, about how he felt about Trump.
So it’s disingenuous for Romney to try to claim, as he did Friday, that he wasn’t a leader of the “Never Trump” movement.
But the fact that Romney is trying to distance himself from himself underscores how even one of the president’s former top critics has come to accept that the Republican Party is Trump’s party. And that means as Romney cruises to become the possible next senator from Utah, we shouldn’t expect him to become Trump’s next Republican antagonist in Congress.