“Cut-outs, front groups, false narratives, hidden funding. It has the tradecraft of a covert op.” So says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of both the Budget Committee and the It’s Always Sunny Meme Committee, of his rivals’ political support. Whitehouse’s conspiracy theorizing, recently expanded into.
In a speech meant to declare a strategy if he were to return to the White House, former President Donald Trump painted a bleak picture of the nation under Democrats and himself as a savior.
While teaching emissions control policies this last week to my undergraduates, I revisited my signature of the Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends (now signed by over 3600 economists). It’s been four years since the origin of the statement, and despite it being the most agreed-upon policy statement in the history.