What Democrats get wrong about climate change

Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dear Democrats: On the environment, you need to win over people like me.

You’re concerned about climate change. It’s one of your defining issues. You think everyone should be equally alarmed. So, the best way to go about winning over your fellow self-governed citizens is to … demonize them, enact policies that make their lives harder, and fail to make any visible sacrifices yourself? Seems legit.

Yet, this has been the modus operandi under President Joe Biden, Gov. Tom Wolf, and many other Green New Dealers. It’s healing the Earth via tyranny, rather than democratic means. This strategy is doomed to fail.

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