The Green New Deal’s Supporters Should Take a Crucial Lesson From FDR’s Original New Deal

When a group of young Green New Deal supporters engaged Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday in a headline-making confrontation about the ambitious economic and environmental plan, they had one main retort to her skepticism about the program’s feasibility: for a massive problem like climate change, they argued, a massive fix is needed.

The program’s expansiveness is one of the points on which critics of the plan are quick to seize.

When a group of young Green New Deal supporters engaged Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday in a headline-making confrontation about the ambitious economic and environmental plan, they had one main retort to her skepticism about the program’s feasibility: for a massive problem like climate change, they argued, a massive fix is needed. The program’s expansiveness is one of the points on which critics of the plan are quick to seize.