Right or Left, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, everybody is a Gaullist now in the Anglosphere. Ross Douthat, the conservative voice at the New York Times, recently argued that “U.S. conservatives should fall in love with France.” A distinguished liberal essayist and editorialist, Timothy Garton Ash, using the French spelling waxed bombastic in the Guardian on March 15 about “Churchillo-Gaullisme.”

Mr. Douthat’s point is that France is poised to be America’s best partner in Europe under the “America First” dispensation, thanks to Charles de Gaulle’s heritage of “national independence.” Also, that France could accordingly be co-opted as a natural leader on the continent.