Opinion: The Republicans’ status quo problem
Vice President Pence at the Capitol. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 6 at 2:15 PM When Donald Trump ran for president, he didn’t bother much with policy. He had broad ideas about the world — America is a hellscape, we don’t win anymore, China’s taking advantage of us, immigrants are dangerous — but when it came down to things he actually wanted do do, he wasn’t concerned about the details.
But not all of them think so. Ari Natter of Bloomberg reports that some Republicans are exploring the idea that maybe, possibly, perhaps we might want to consider doing something about the existential crisis that threatens all life on planet Earth: “It’s just not worth the fight anymore,” Shimkus said in an interview when asked about his changing stance on climate change. “Let’s just see what we can do to address it and not hurt the economy.”
But even these outliers in the GOP are essentially taking a negative position: It’s not that they think climate change is an urgent global crisis; they just want to moderate whatever Democrats wind up forcing us to do.
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