Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally party, a descendant of the National Front, has been a political renovator. Her party, like other European formations with origins on the far right, has responded to anger and anxiety over the influx of Muslim immigrants by ditching open or covert antisemitism for something like philosemitism.

Her latest renovation project is on the French home itself. She wants to give homes, along with schools and hospitals, air-conditioning. France has an AC uptake rate of only 25 percent, half that of warmer but poorer Spain. Many greens and........

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