{"id":2632657,"date":"2026-07-20T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-candidates-want-to-resurrect-green-new-deal-corpse\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:23:04","slug":"socialist-candidates-want-to-resurrect-green-new-deal-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-candidates-want-to-resurrect-green-new-deal-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Candidates Want to Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocialist-candidates-want-to-resurrect-green-new-deal-corpse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2632657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-group-threatens-mi-voters-with-review-of-voting-records\/\" title=\"Leftist Group Threatens MI Voters With &#039;Review&#039; Of Voting Records\">content discusses concerns<\/a> about the increasing radicalization within the Democratic Party&#8217;s energy policies, highlighting a push by progressives and socialists to expand the Green New Deal (GND) into the AI era. It criticizes proposals that would heavily regulate or restrict travel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-letting-environmental-groups-funded-by-russia-dictate-americas-energy-policy\/\" title=\"Stop Letting Environmental Groups ... By Russia Dictate America...s ...\">ban fossil fuels<\/a>, and overhaul energy infrastructure, viewing these as destructive and unrealistic. The article links these policy ideas to far-left organizations funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irony-overload-soros-backed-group-complains-about-billionaires-like-elon-musk-being-toxic-to-democracy\/\" title=\"Irony Overload: Soros-Backed Group Complains About Billionaires Like Elon Musk Being \u201cToxic\u201d to Democracy\">major left-wing donors<\/a>, suggesting they aim to dismantle the current economic and energy systems. It emphasizes that such socialist initiatives are fundamentally about destruction rather than building, and warns that revitalizing the Green new deal in its current form would harm American prosperity and human initiative. The piece also references the rise of socialist candidates in Congress, attributing their support to elite left-wing interests, and portrays the insurgent left as a dangerous force threatening the country&#8217;s progress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Every time you think the energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party can\u2019t possibly get any crazier, they go and fool you again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politico\u2019s E&#038;E News published<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2026\/07\/progressives-look-to-revamp-the-green-new-deal-for-the-ai-era-pro-00989390\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  an article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  Friday with a headline that should scare the bejeebers out of anyone who hopes for sanity in energy policy: \u201cProgressives look to recharge the Green New Deal for the AI era.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The piece quotes Melat Kiros, the socialist who unseated longtime incumbent Democratic Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette in the party\u2019s recent Colorado primary as saying, \u201cThe Green New Deal, frankly, is a floor now, not a ceiling, for what we need to actually be looking at doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, of course, parrots the classic mantra of every generation of new socialists, who, when presented with the reality that socialism fails disastrously everywhere it is tried, invariably claim that it just hasn\u2019t been done the right way, and they know better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they never really do know better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s be clear here: what any version of the Green New Deal introduced by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Sen Ed Markey in 2019 would do for the AI era would be to kill it. Why? Because it is a classically socialist program by its very nature. It is a program which would seize the means of production through the central government, invoke a gigantic array of top-down command-and-control regulatory structures and utterly destroy the spirit of human initiative and innovation that lead to human flourishing and prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the various socialist candidates quoted in the E&#038;E piece are supported by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunrisemovement.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sunrise Movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a far-left activist NGO <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/sunrise-movement\/#funding\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">funded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  mainly by leftwing billionaire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/03\/us-news\/grassroots-anti-ice-campaigns-funded-by-left-wing-billionaire-donors-sources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interests <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tides Foundation and the Soros-affiliated Open Society Policy Center. What a surprise \u2013 it\u2019s like a who\u2019s who of far leftwing astroturf protest funders who have been behind every U.S. protest movement since Occupy Wall Street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Green New Deal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-resolution\/109\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as proposed by AOC and Markey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  seven years ago involved an end to discretionary air travel; heavy restrictions on all other travel; heavy personal driving restrictions; a de facto banning of oil, natural gas, and coal; the building of a vast network of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >high-speed rail lines<\/a> which would cost trillions of dollars and take a century or more to develop, assuming the economy didn\u2019t enter into a major depression in the meantime; and destruction of power grid reliability by forcing mass adoption of wind and solar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To this new generation of Sunrise-supported socialists, that array of destructive and frankly impossible options is now the \u201cfloor\u201d for what really needs to be done. You just can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Democrat Party \u2013 the socialists, the Marxists \u2013 have nominated some of the most radical candidates to ever run for office, and they\u2019re running for Congress. The insurgent left is on the rise,\u201d House Speaker <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/9UQoHxUc_H8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Johnson said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  after New York voters nominated three socialist candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The speaker isn\u2019t wrong; in fact, he\u2019s a master of understatement. The insurgent left is not just on the rise, it is being funded by the same leftwing billionaire interests who funded the destruction of America\u2019s coal industry, the anti-fracking movement and the effort to kill the shale revolution that has generated hundreds of billions of dollars in economic growth and made the United States the world\u2019s dominant energy powerhouse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any revitalization of the Green New Deal would be intentionally designed to destroy all of that and much more. Any effort to apply a renewed Green New Deal to the AI industry would be designed to destroy it, too. 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