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

The rest of O’Rourke’s plan reads like a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., wish list, which is to say, it takes the worst of government programs and doubles down on them.

O’Rourke also calls for huge hikes in federal subsidized farm insurance, which the Cato Institute notes is very wasteful.

He pledges that new federal energy permits must “fully account for climate costs and community impacts.” But considering that the current permitting process is already insane, O’Rourke risks destroying the energy industry here and perhaps even causing blackouts. This is profoundly immoral: Dynamism in America’s energy industry is reducing energy bills, promoting national security, and providing hundreds of thousands of well-paid private sector jobs. Green jobs, in contrast, are a boondoggle that can exist only with significant help from the taxpayer.

Moving on, O’Rourke wants to pick new Solyndra-style losers with his promise to “leverage $500 billion in annual government procurement to decarbonize across all sectors.”