![]() Why Wyoming should care is that youths showed up to the polls in 2018 in record numbers for a mid-term election, and then voted Democratic at a rate three times higher than in the 2014 mid-terms. ![]() Just as important, support for the GND’s energy policies is even stronger among young voters. Even Republicans are split almost evenly in their support for the environmental half of the bill. Support for the environmental proposals in the Green New Deal are still supported by a whopping 72 percent of all voters, including 77 percent of the all-important independent voters. Because what many in the GOP fail to recognize is that the reduction in support comes from the socialist economic policies of the GND, not the bill’s energy policies. Nonetheless, nearly 48 percent of Americans still support the Green New Deal and only 28 percent oppose it.īut that alone misses the most important point. As these details became better known, support among Americans for the plan came down. The Green New Deal is equal parts wind energy, equal parts guaranteed jobs for anyone. One half addresses climate change and the other proposes classic socialist economic proposals. The GND is really two policy proposals rolled up into one. Which brings us back to the Green New Deal. If my smart friends from both parties are right about Texas, our state is in for a tough future if we don’t start paying attention to what is happening around us. Meanwhile, 49 percent of our land is controlled by the Federal government and one-third of our GDP comes from extraction industries regulated by Washington. We have a whopping three votes in the electoral college, which reliably goes to the Republican nominee anyway, and we only have one seat out of 435 in the U.S. We know that no presidential candidate will ever spend more than a refueling stop in Wyoming during a campaign. I told him what I had heard, and he blandly confirmed for me that the eventual fall of Texas was more or less taken for granted by both parties. Then he said, “When Texas goes, we’ll be the minority party for a generation.”Ī week later, I had dinner with a former senior member of the Democratic National Committee (yes, I have friends in both parties). He even told me that in his conversations with Jared Kushner, he’d warned the Trump campaign not to take Texas and their 38 electoral votes for granted because the fall may come as soon as 2020. ![]() Let me explain.Ī few weeks ago, I had dinner with a Republican senator who told me that based on demographic trends there was a certainty Texas would become Democratic by 2026. To this support the GOP’s official response has been principally sarcasm and contempt, which may be the undoing of the Republican Party and with it Wyoming’s economic future. The Green New Deal is impractical, expensive, unrealistic, and reckless and when Americans were asked if they support it, 80 percent of registered voters from all parties said yes. Senate candidate and and regular contributor to the Laramie Boomerang.
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