The White House Targets State Climate Laws

That’s all well and good—necessary, even—but let’s not kid ourselves: this grotesque beast has swollen to proportions that defy sane geometry, and simply retracting its most sadistic tentacles creates a dangerous illusion. By easing the pain, we risk absolving the crime. Soon enough, climate policy—the high priest of our modern bureaucratic inquisition—will no longer be blamed for the economic and social wreckage it gleefully engineered. Don’t be fooled: the aftershocks of these sanctimonious follies will echo through the corridors of history for years, perhaps decades—long after Trump has exited stage right, and possibly even after whatever poor devil comes next. The public, bless their goldfish attention span, will forget at the first whiff of normalcy. Which is why hammering home the reality—that the whole sordid affair was little more than a sanctified money heist wrapped in green rhetoric—isn’t just useful. It’s survival. 

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