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David Weigel

Sep 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

https://twitter.com/UNMC_DrKhan/status/1301022558242902016

The reference to "eliminating air travel" reflects just how good the right is at *consistent* messaging. The Green New Deal FAQ of February 2019 now lives on the website of the Heartland Foundation, a climate skeptic think tank. heartland.org/publications-r…

https://twitter.com/UNMC_DrKhan/status/1301022558242902016

It's all based on an ironic line about what the GND *wouldn't* do - net zero emissions, not no emissions whatsoever, bc "in 10 years, because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast."

This hasn't really damaged Democrats bc "my opponent will ban cows" sounds/is bonkers. But one snarky staffer put that sentence in and it's been used to club Democrats over the head for 17 months.

But anyway, the much more effective Green New Deal messaging was in the video AOC and Molly Crabapple did - a sci-fi future where life is cleaner and easier, where *not* acting would have deprived people. theintercept.com/2019/04/17/gre…

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