For those conservatives who didn’t vote for either major candidate in the last election cycle, one of the great irritants of recent months has been the constant drumbeat of accusation that any criticism of President Trump is sour grapes. This theory was expressed most clearly by my friend Dennis Prager in a column he wrote earlier this week at National Review, which got well-deserved coverage:

After investing so much energy in opposing Trump’s election, and after predicting his nomination would lead to electoral disaster, it’s hard for them to admit they were wrong. To see him fulfill many of his conservative election promises, again in defiance of predictions, is a bitter pill. But if they hang on to their Never Trumpism and the president falls on his face, they can say they were right all along.

This was an odd contention earlier this week, and it’s even odder today.

Here, for example, are some samples of various “Never Trump” conservatives celebrating President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord. Do these people sound like they are swallowing a bitter pill?

David French: “Consider it a campaign promise rightly kept….leaving the Paris agreement was a big promise made, and as of today it’s a big promise kept.”

Noah Rothman:

This is one of those moments where it feels like my liberal friends are surprised to find that anti-Trump conservatives remain conservatives — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) June 1, 2017

John Podhoretz:

Listen to this speech. It's the smartest political play of his presidency. — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 1, 2017

Jonah Goldberg:

You mean like how human life begins at conception, nuclear power and GMOs are safe, and sex is a thing? https://t.co/fCcRvswuS2 — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 2, 2017

Erick Erickson:

President Trump has decided to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Given the hysteria over his decision, you would think he just launched a nuclear war. Instead, he exposed how so much of the left’s agenda is meaningless virtue signaling.

This is the point: Never Trump no longer exists. It ended the day of the election, because it wasn’t a movement, it was a personal statement that Donald Trump had not earned the votes of some conservatives. After the election ended, those who didn’t vote Trump hadn’t voted for Trump (I’m not speaking now of those who voted affirmatively for Hillary Clinton, who may well fulfill Dennis’ description). And those people were happy to watch and evaluate Trump day by day – to criticize him when wrong, of course, but to praise him when he was correct. That is not only the morally correct course when dealing with a politician, even one for whom you are rooting, it is the politically prudent course: pretending away errors and heresies leads politicians to double down on those errors and heresies.

But what the Paris Accord fallout demonstrates – as did the Gorsuch pick, for example -- is that those who didn’t vote for Trump are still more than happy to celebrate his conservative wins.

Here’s the real question: are those who celebrate Trump full-time honest enough to call him out on his failures? How many of those shouting “THIS IS WHY WE NEED TRUMP” today on the Paris Accord had anything to say about Trump backing off his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem? Never Trump isn’t a thing. But Always Trump is. The proper answer is Sometimes Trump, because just like all other human beings, sometimes he does the right things, and sometimes he doesn’t.

But we can all celebrate when he does. And we’re all happy to do so.