Pennsylvania’s Governor Puts ‘Green’ Messaging Ahead of Realistic Solutions

Originally published in National Review.

Leading Democrats still haven’t learned the lesson of their defeat to Donald Trump. Their party is stuck in the political wilderness because they spent four years trying to favorably “message” around their policy failures instead of promoting real solutions to Americans’ problems. Now, one of the governors who wants to lead Democrats out of the wilderness—Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro—is making the same mistake.

On January 28, Shapiro tried to make a bombshell announcement. He said that PJM Interconnection—a heavily regulated company that manages the electric grid in much of the mid-Atlantic—settled a lawsuit the governor had filed the previous month. According to Shapiro, the company would stop “unnecessary price hikes” and “save consumers over $21 billion on utility bills.” Clearly, the governor wants to suggest that he’s providing Americans relief from the cost-of-living crisis.

Don’t believe a word of it. Shapiro and his fellow Democrats are to blame for soaring energy costs. And despite the hullabaloo, the governor’s settlement will do nothing to give families lasting relief.

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