The re-election of Donald Trump last November thrilled many on the right, especially nationalists wanting to adapt his America First ideology to their own countries. And some Christians looked past Trump’s personal history of multiple divorce and sexual scandal to suggest this was an age of religious rebirth.

But for one of Britain’s leading conservatives, Donald Trump, and the United States itself, are poor role models for true conservatives. Peter Hitchens is a popular columnist for The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.