Frank Luntz Angry That He Hasn't Been Absolved For Fucking Climate Policy; But Both Sides Both Sides

[hatrack]

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Luntz says his concerns began before Trump but have accelerated in the years since 2016. “What’s different now that did not exist before is a sense of revenge and that is Donald Trump – he put that into the chemical mix,” he said. “Resentment is ‘someone else is doing better than me’, revenge is ‘I want to bring them down’; we had resentment over the last 20-30 years, we did not have a desire for revenge, that desire came into being in 2016.”

He said the rise of “squad leader” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reflected the Democratic Party’s desire for revenge via “woke politics”, something he warns MPs against because of the long-term destruction it will cause to society. “Once you put it in your bloodstream you can never get it out, that’s the danger – populism on the right and wokeism on the left, and I’m seeking here in Britain, to warn people of both,” he said. He defined woke as “intolerance”, “cancel” and the drive to “punish people in the future for perceived mistakes of the past”. “That’s the worst kind of politics because it’s all about definitions and you can’t figure out a way to work together,” he said.

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Abbott relied heavily on the work of Luntz to destroy political support for a carbon price; in 2001, Luntz advised George W. Bush to refer to global warming as climate change. “I was trying to say the science wasn’t settled – prove it,” Luntz says. He says this is now his biggest regret.

Between 2007 and 2009 and by the time Tony Abbott toppled Malcolm Turnbull for the Liberal leadership and reversed the then opposition’s support for an emissions trading scheme, the work that Luntz did with the Environmental Defence Fund had convinced him the science was settled. “Instead of damning me for getting it wrong 21 years ago, recognise that I was willing to acknowledge my mistakes 12 years ago and the media doesn’t do that even today,” he said. “Bring me to Australia and let me tell your people about the journey. It is fixable and I know how to do it,” he said.

Ed. - So, Frank, are you saying that you alone can fix it?

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https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/donald-trump-will-never-be-president-again-says-renowned-pollster-frank-luntz-20211009-p58yna.html

[Walleye]

1. He is still a prick. He's the one who started calling us the Democrat party I think. Words that work

[LunaSea]

2. Take the hemlock Frank,

you know you deserve it.

[Xoan]

3. Waaaaay past his sell by date.