This is unfair, Chris. While it's true that SOME Democrats have understood and articulated the win/win opportunity innate to cleaner, cheaper energy it's been far from universal. And never so forcefully and consistently from the President in a SOTU speech.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1387578124674781189
In my professional and political experience, people have evaluated climate policy not by whether it is does what is necessary but by how close it gets to the limits of what conventional wisdom says is the limit of political possibility.
In other words, we elect people based on their stated capacity for leadership and then allow them to get away with saying "well, the voters just aren't there yet." That ain't leadership, and leaves climate policy constrained primarily by our collective ambition.
What was notable to me about Biden's speech as relates to climate was his commitment to tack into the wind. To push for what is necessary. To lead. I wish that wasn't exceptional. But it is, and we shouldn't suggest otherwise. /fin
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