The Green New Deal is sincerely considered a cure, for the mass panic, created by the left, connected to climate change. Many young people, on the left, have been fed doom and gloom scenarios, since childhood, with the earth about to be destroyed in a few years, every few years. If we assume this was true and you bought into the fear, as did Cortez, things would need to change fast, to turn the tide. The details of her proposal are accurate and reflect the panic button steps needed to save the planet; It assumes this is all true and we need a national emergency.
The problem is, the Democrat leadership also caused mass panic over Trump-Russian collusion. This is in its final days, and is being shown to be a scam. There is now some doubt in the infallibility of the left wing leadership. They are being shown to be good con artists.
The reaction by senior Democrats, to walk back the Green New Deal, tells me the Democrat leadership knows that climate change is a scam, and they also know it did not fool the majority of the American people, beyond their own younger base. This is not good politics at this time.
The intentions of the young leftists, like Cortex, is based on a sincere belief in that scam. The logical solution to the fear, will not play well for those who were not indoctrinated. The fear of the Democrat leadership is that party wide acceptance, of the solution to the scam, will be seen as being too radical, instead of a cure, for a voter majority.
The analogy is an older sibling, toys with a younger sibling, to have a few laughs. He convinces the younger sibling that a murderer is in the neighborhood. He tells him there is no time to call the police. Instead the younger sibling needs to nail all the doors and windows shut. The younger sibling is so panicked he believes this and gets the hammer and nails. The parents come home and have to come in through a window, since the door is nailed shut They get very angry at the younger sibling, because he nails the front door.
Mitch McConnell is taking the Green New Deal up for a vote, to expose the scammers for what they are. There is panic among the Democrat leadership and their fake news propaganda wing, less they be exposed for causing the panic reaction. In the sibling scenario, the older sibling; Democrats, are circling the wagons and distances themselves, less they can blamed, for the idea to nail the doors and windows shut. This is good for the Republicans, since it will divide the panicked young left voter, who is about to explode from decades of fear, from the con artist Democrat leadership; older sibling swamp.
The left has the problem of panicked youth, who can no longer wait. The scam had been timed to coincide with a Hillary presidency. Trump messed up the psychological time bomb and it is about to engage at the wrong political time. Trump is going to have take out the left wing scam artists to save the leftist youth. AG Barr is in place, so this counter offensive is about to begin.
