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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: S. maltophilia10/15/2025 4:50:39 PM
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China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

Paul Krugman

Oct 15, 2025

..... Chris Wright, Trump’s energy secretary, says that solar power is unreliable: “You have to have power when the sun goes behind a cloud and when the sun sets, which it does almost every night.” So the energy secretary of the most technologically advanced nation on earth is unaware of the energy revolution being propelled by dramatic technological progress in batteries. And the revolution is happening now in the U.S., in places like California. Here’s what electricity supply looked like during an average day in California back in June:





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What is the source of this breathtaking ignorance and hostility to progress? It’s natural to blame fossil fuel interests for the attacks on renewables and climate science. Moreover, we should not forget that Trump is an incredibly petty man who hates, hates the sight of offshore wind turbines from his Scottish golf course.

But neither of those factors explain the administration’s crusade against vaccines, or......

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