Neocon: IRA’s Climate Moves Won’t Matter

Oblivion “awaits the climate-change bill masquerading as anti-inflation legislation presently working its way through the Senate,” argues Commentary’s Noah Rothman. It’s hailed as the “biggest piece of climate legislation . . . in U.S. policy,” yet it’s “likely to be all but forgotten by the time voters head to the polls in November.” Why? The “marginal reform” it implements, i.e. subsidies and incentives, “will doubtlessly fail to satisfy those who talk about climate change in apocalyptic terms,” while “climate change ranks as a voter priority just below the federal budget deficit” among average Americans. Dems love to demand we “‘do something’ about . . . various social maladies.” Now they’ve “produced ‘something.’ It will satisfy no one.”