Anything? Did they learn anything?
What Trump’s Victory Taught Democrats About Climate Change
Climate policy is decidedly unfashionable in 2025 — among Democrats.
The party isn’t embracing climate change denialism like many in the GOP, nor is it endorsing the Trump administration’s attacks on clean energy. But as Democrats continue groping for a way forward after their 2024 defeat, they’ve clearly decided they need to change how they talk about climate and energy issues. And in some cases, it goes beyond rhetoric to the actual policies they’re promoting. The bottom line for Democrats: Climate is out, affordability is in.
With Donald Trump having won back the presidency amid broad frustration with high prices, it’s perhaps no surprise that Democrats are trying to make gains in the affordability debate. But it’s still striking to see longtime climate champions in the party shift gears, and it speaks to concern among Democrats that their focus on climate change has weighed them down.
“It’s an issue that I think we need to continue to engage on and speak out on and work to legislate on, but it’s not a top three issue right now,” Sen. Chris Coons, the Democratic co-chair of the Senate’s bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, told me.
So, they learned to use misdirection, to put the scam on the backburner till they win again?
In a recent op-ed, Coons pinned Delaware’s rising electricity costs on Trump — and didn’t mention climate once.
Indeed, party leaders are trying a two-pronged affordability-centered strategy: tying higher electricity bills nationwide to Republicans’ dismantling of their signature climate package, while also downplaying climate policies within the states Democrats do control.
Coons spends A LOT of time yammering about ‘climate change’ on social media. And, Dems can try this route all they want, most of the skyrocketing of energy prices happened during Biden’s years as he did all he could to skupper fossil fuels while promoting “green” energy, but, not actually building anything close to necessary to replace what he killed off.
“The way to victory is to talk about price,” the Hawaii Democrat said at a New York Times event last month. “You could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation, and you could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, and by the time you’re done talking, people think you don’t care about them.”
Are you getting the idea that Dems haven’t really dropped the matter, just talking about it differently? They will never give up on the scam, because it is a route to higher taxes/fees and more control of the peasants.
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