Hacker News Reader

I don't think it has much to do with Trump. The first place I noticed this in the left wing of politics was when they started to move on climate change. It is difficult to frame "we believe you are going to doom us all!" in a respectful and non-judgemental way. Also that belief shut down a lot of curiosity.

Any hints on the first precursors on the right?

View on HN

When do you consider the left to have moved on climate? Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially. George Bush is famous for pushing cap and trade ideas in the late 80s early 90s for instance

ClimateTown has a fairly entertaining video about it https://youtu.be/MondapIjAAM

I thought there was a sea change some time after Al Gore & An Inconvenient Truth, and someone decided to make it an identity issue.

> Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially.

Yeah, that is part of what makes me think it is relevant. Going form somewhat bipartisan to "our opponents are going to negligently incinerate us all" seems like a symptom of the breakdown of debate.

I think McCarthyism?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com