Not really, imo. This is the standard republican MO - when it gets too hard to lie to people and have a full half of them believe you, switch it up and act like it was your idea all along. But also make sure it’s the slowest, least effective solution available, which gives you the ammo to claim 1) you’re doing something and 2) no one else needs to do anything.
This is 100% an attempt to capture the narrative so that they can kill it off quietly in the background, but still campaign on it.
If by chance this does get enacted, expect it to be an incredibly overpriced boondoggle where they contract with their donors’ companies and throw cash at them to beef up paper mill forests.
Not really, imo. This is the standard republican MO - when it gets too hard to lie to people and have a full half of them believe you, switch it up and act like it was your idea all along. But also make sure it’s the slowest, least effective solution available, which gives you the ammo to claim 1) you’re doing something and 2) no one else needs to do anything.
This is 100% an attempt to capture the narrative so that they can kill it off quietly in the background, but still campaign on it.
If by chance this does get enacted, expect it to be an incredibly overpriced boondoggle where they contract with their donors’ companies and throw cash at them to beef up paper mill forests.