'Green New Deal' a product of ideological recycling
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 09, 2019
3 minutes
It's fitting that the Green New Deal pushed by many but popularized by Democratic phenom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had her "60 Minutes" debut on Sunday, is a triumph of recycling.
Not of plastic bags or soda cans, but of ideas. Specifically, Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal and the impulses behind it.
To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is fairly honest about her ideological recycling.
"None of these things are
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