And another thing. Its not like Trump fired up Lexis Nexis himself and read through Court opinions to come up with a pick himself after carefully weighing complicated legal and sociopolitical theories in his mind. It was presented to him by his advisors from recommendations by the Federalist society etc.
Well, it’s pretty easy. Conservatives used to dislike Anthony Kennedy and like Antonin Scalia. Results showed Kennedy was left of center. Trump came along and nominated Kennedy people to SCOTUS. The fact that they were Kennedy acolytes is all you need to know. All of the sudden “conservatives” liked Kennedy and didn’t like Scalia.