‘Conservation Republicans’ Never Coming Back. That Ship Done Sunk.

The headline was jarring: “Trump has veered dangerously from the conservative legacy of protecting our air, water and natural resources.”

Conservative legacy? Veered? I must have missed something.

I read the rest carefully. Trammell S. Crow, a wealthy environmental and education philanthropist who lives in Dallas, said in an op-ed essay in The Dallas Morning News last week that Trump’s calamitous assault on the environment was some kind of anomaly, a departure from his great record on immigration and deregulation.