No matter how crucial the issue, Democrats rarely evince any belief in their own power to persuade or inform the electorate. They sit on their hands until polling moves in their direction, thus disabling their own ability to move the needle. And thus their silence on Trump’s extinction agenda as evidenced by his deranged insistence that global warming is a hoax, his apocalyptic opposition to clean energy, his floor-the-accelerator approach to fossil fuels.
Katie Aronoff at The New Republic offers prescription: “Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change.”