> just win on price and the right wing will happily adopt it

Obvious counterpoints: Trump's $700m "clean, beautiful coal" handouts, or Trump's $2B buyback of wind farm leases.

I'm talking about the voter base, not the crooks in Washington.

The voter base keeps voting for the crooks though.

Nobody likes everything any politician does. The question is who is least evil.

The less evil one, in this case, is the one that is not afraid to admit excess CO2 (emitted by human activity) is a problem.