Let’s be fair. Most conservatives - and count me in - were thrilled with President trump’s choices.
Something seems to happen to people on our side who join any big government bureaucracy. The press and bureaucratic pressures bear down hard. It is too bad, but the Clarence Thomases and Anthony Scalias seem to be of a bygone breed.
Nearly all black conservatives are like Thomas. They spend their entire lives defending what the believe, and are thus unlikely to magically move left upon confirmation.