But that deal has never been forthcoming, because there is no functional center-right in U.S. politics. And [Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel and company say we’ve got to build bridges to the Republicans. Instead, once Republicans took total control for two years, we saw the rewards granted to Democrats for trying to be compromising. The reward for Obama and Democrats embracing market-oriented “cap and trade” climate policy was that Republicans blocked it with a wall of intransigence and fossil-fuel-industry-funded climate change denialism. Read more:Paul Waldman: Do Democrats really have to worry about the left?

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 20:51 UTC