The Green New Deal will add fuel to Republican claims that Democrats are using climate change as a smokescreen for a left-wing agenda
its 26th season, the self-parody act that is the Republican Party on global warming is still playing to a loyal audience. With the nomination of Kelly Knight Craft to be ambassador to the, Americans can expect to be represented in the world’s premier climate-policy forum by the wife of a billionaire coal magnate and Trump donor who claims to admire “both sides of the science” on global warming.
No wonder many Democrats want to cut the Republicans out of climate policymaking altogether. Their two past attempts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions—a legislative effort in 2009 and the regulatory steps taken by Barack Obama—both foundered on Republican resistance. The first, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, passed the House but was not taken up in the Senate after the Democrats lost their 60-vote majority there.
Only a unified Democratic government—with a filibuster-proof majority or no filibuster to worry about—could entertain passing it. This is not simply because the climate-related proposals in Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s draft are left-wing. In fact, by allowing a possible role for carbon pricing, nuclear power and carbon capture-and-storage, they are more moderate than many activists would like.
It might therefore seem sensible that the deal’s architects are only counting on Democratic votes. Yet moderates such as Mr Manchin—who says theis “not a deal, it’s a dream”—seem unlikely to support it. The proposal is already being used to attack such Democrats in rural states with lots of extractive industries. Opposing it would offer them a relatively low-cost opportunity to define themselves against their party.
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