PBS NewsHour ’s weekly recap with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart began with a discussion on, of all things, Republican attitudes towards climate change. During the discussion, Brooks, the supposedly conservative half of the duo, reduced oil drilling to a simple way of Republicans to offend elite sensibilities.
Host Amna Nawaz wondered, “David, there’s a little bit of a chicken-and-egg argument here. Republican candidates aren’t talking about it because people don’t think it’s a threat. But if they talked about it more, would people think it’s a threat?”
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The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.Brooks replied that “I think so” and lamented “I’m old enough to go back to John McCain and Lindsey Graham 20 years ago, who supported — who proposed a big climate change […]
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