Proponents of the “Green New Deal” have called it ambitious and visionary, comparing it to putting a man on the moon. They cast this extreme, unworkable plan as forward thinking, even futuristic.
The opposite is true. From its rosy portrayal of socialist policies like a government takeover of healthcare to its calls to bring back mid-20th century labor policies, the “Green New Deal” is the most backwards-looking plan the left has put forward in decades. It harkens back to the past and imagines a world without a dynamic, capitalist American economy with a world-class energy sector.
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