Trump’s Paris deal reversal should have conservatives jumping for joy

When Donald Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, he fulfilled what is presumably the dream of George F. Will, one of America’s pre-eminent climate change deniers. Yet Will is not fond of Trump. In fact Will, America’s Tory manqué, is manifestly unhappy about the ascension of Donald Trump to the White House, where he is rapidly rubbishing everything that the modern conservative movement has stood for in recent decades. At least this is what Will would have you believe in his latest column in the Washington Post, entitled ‘Conservatism needs another Buckley’. Will means William F. Buckley, Jr., the man whom Evelyn Waugh regarded with lofty disdain, but has come to represent everything good and pure and noble about American conservatism – at least in the eyes of Will and a gaggle of Never Trumpers who want to bring back the good old days.