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Democratic strategists must understand the danger. But in the party’s activist base these days, “moderate” is a dirty word. The Democrats’ hard-left wing won’t play traditional strategic games but instead wants to load the party with a Big Green Government platform that would be two-ways dangerous: If it doesn’t re-elect Trump, it will hobble whoever beats him.

You’d think environmentalists would be careful with hot air, but the AOC-Markey manifesto is entirely aspirational. The most common complaint about it is that it provides hardly the slightest hint about what it will cost. But that’s because it provides hardly the slightest hint about what it actually will do. It’s all blue sky, no blueprint.

At 14 double-spaced pages, the green manifesto runs about 2,000 words, i.e., about two-and-a-half times longer than this column. Its statements of “whereas-es” are 766 words, so its operational bit — which aims to largely re-make the U.S. economy — is a little over 1,300 words.

The whereas-es are a litany of actual and foretold woe: racial and gender differences in income and wealth (though it’s hard to see how they’re due to climate change); wildfires that will consume twice as much forest in 2050 as now (which at least might be linked to climate change but haven’t actually happened yet); declining life expectancy (mainly the fault of opioids); economic immobility (on which, studies say, the U.S. has lagged for at least a century, dating back to when the climatic change that people feared wasn’t warming, but a new ice age); depopulated rural communities (the trend for at least two centuries); and imperiled national security (will a green president therefore declare a national security emergency?).