Saturday, February 29, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: The Heartland Institute puts its sputtering engine in reverse (White Nationalism edition)



Reported in At CPAC, It's Now an All-Trump Show.  (The New York Times, 2/28/2020)

Photo and text from Southern Poverty Law Center

Original 2/25/2020 post starts here.

Another goofy cabal of free-market thinkers.


The anti-Greta: A conservative think tank takes on the global phenomenon.  (Washington Post, 2/23/2020)
Influential to those who are easily led around by the nose“She’s a fantastic voice for free markets and for climate realism,” said James Taylor, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, an influential libertarian think tank in suburban Chicago that has the ear of the Trump administration.

"Climate realism.'  Hey, guys, there's a word for that.

 Leave it to the Heartland Institute to embrace someone who is out of touch, looking backward.


Related posts:
The Heartland Institute, its climate-denier senses working overtime, sez Pope is wrong on climate change.  (9/26/2015)
The Heartland Institute proudly wears its badge of climate skepticism.  (6/20/2013)

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