President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from what is arguably the world’s most important climate agreement, and the reaction everyone is having to this very precedented move is to call it “illegal,” proving once and for all that lawmakers are either remaining willfully delusional about a method of governance that flirts with authoritarianism, or they’ve just figured out the way to make it someone else’s problem.
Whatever the answer, the only person who ends up winning, as usual, is Donald Trump.
