Biden embraces climate radicalism

Published June 26, 2020 4:01am ET



Our mothers taught us to judge a person by the company he keeps. In the case of Joe Biden, his choice of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the co-chairwoman of his climate task force tells us an awful lot about the growing dangers of a Biden presidency.

Ocasio-Cortez is best-known as the House sponsor of the Green New Deal. This measure aims to commandeer energy production, bankrupt productive oil and gas companies, and generally run our economy into the ground at an estimated cost of $93 trillion over 10 years.

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