Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for climate socialism is deeply unserious

Published April 29, 2019 4:48pm ET



Reading former Democratic Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s newly released climate plan on Monday, I was struck by that famous Sherlock Holmes line: “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

The truth, I thus surmise, is that O’Rourke is not a terribly serious politician. Because as with most of his platform (more on that in a moment), O’Rourke’s climate change plan takes a serious problem and answers with absurdity.

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