#green-new-deal

#green-new-deal

Among the self-plaudits was a zinger about how, thanks to his "landslide" election victory and his energy policies, the US had avoided the "Green New Scam," what he called "perhaps the greatest hoax in history." Mixed in with stuff about credit card debt and making the US the crypto capital of the world, there was a reminder about how the president had personally ridden to the rescue of the American economy, so that it now knows "virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth."

In the United States, calls for better social services, public programs, and other state-led interventions are reliably met with cries of impracticality. Ideas from the left are regularly derided in hyperbolic terms; some classics include the charge that the left wishes to give away the equivalent of "free ponies" (that one comes via Hillary Clinton), or are otherwise pie-in-the-sky utopians living in a "magical fantasy land," promising " unicorns " and the like.