No matter what happens in the world — Kim Jong-un and Ayatollah Khamenei could be having nuke-slinging contests — Democrats won’t be moved off their position that global warming, or “climate change,” as they learned to say, is the biggest threat to mankind. (They will never learn to say “mankind.”)
The other day, thanks to the Democratic debate, I had a memory from 2006. Bill Clinton was at Davos. The capo of that forum, Klaus Schwab, asked him what his three biggest concerns for the world were. The first words out of his mouth were “climate change.” (He had learned.) Then he said “inequality” and “cultural divides.”
Bret Stephens pointed out to me that terrorism and nuclear proliferation didn’t crack Clinton’s top three.
What I wonder is whether Democrats mean it when they say that climate change is the biggest threat, or merely think they have to say it. The harder Left would kill them if they didn’t say it, right?
I suspect that they know that radical Islam is what’s menacing us. But they can’t say the words “radical Islam.” It’s verboten in their world. I suspect they sort of believe that all lives matter. But they can’t say the words, because they’d be eviscerated.
Do they really believe that “climate change” is the greatest threat to man? I don’t know.
P.S. It also seems that they can’t say what the difference is between a Democrat and a socialist. Or whether there is one.