Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues. |
Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.
Dr. Huber is a geographer and the author of “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.”
Sam Forstag, a Democrat running for Congress in Montana, is in many ways a familiar kind of progressive: He is a union worker calling for taxing the rich and expanding Medicare for all Americans.
But there’s one topic he appears to avoid, in his platform and in public forums. When asked recently about the growing threat of wildfires and drought in the West, he discussed a terrible ski season and record-high temperatures, but did not name the........