Ed Morrissey:
That doesn't mean All Quiet on the Green Front, as we'll see momentarily. The immediate question is why Democrats have suddenly shut up about the progressive wing's most treasured agenda set. The Green New Deal was their entrée to true redistributionism, not to mention a more-or-less nationalized energy industry. The GND was to industry what ObamaCare was to healthcare for progressives -- an opening by which to seize the means of production via regulatory capture.
So why shut up about it now? One potential reason: voters began to figure out that it was to industry what ObamaCare was to health care, and wanted no part of it.
The second potential reason may be more applicable. Joe Biden actually managed to get a big chunk of the Green New Deal through Congress by calling it the Inflation Reduction Act.
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