I admire his effort to sell the infeasibility of this batsh*t proposal as a *virtue*. Don’t lament the fact that it would require the…
I admire his effort to sell the infeasibility of this batsh*t proposal as a *virtue*.
Don’t lament the fact that it would require the end of commercial air travel. Be proud. Your grandfathers liberated Europe from Hitler!
Now we’re going to liberate the world from cow farts.
This is the thing about Booker: He tries. Sometimes, even often, he embarrasses himself. But the effort is always there.
The flaw in his analogy is that while it’s true that enormous problems usually require bold solutions, it is of course not true that any bold proposal will work to solve an enormous problem. Trying to build an actual stairway to the moon would have been a bold solution to the problem of how to land a man there. But such is the left’s excitement about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her bold ideas about “economic justice” for people who are “unwilling to work” that all of the chumps in the Democrats’ 2020 class have to feign enthusiasm for the Green New Deal — for now, during a primary, when it benefits them politically to do so.
