In the senate and in the house, among actual policy makers, the green new deal was dead on arrival. McConnell tried to hang it around dem senators necks, and I think the effort failed in a series of votes of "present". And in the House, Nancy hasn't brought it to the floor and has not supported it. Last night on 60 min she declined to support Medicare for All as well.

Sure, candidates play on the campaign. My god man, as recently as the 2012 primaries, you couldn't get a single repub candidate in the primaries to riase his hand indicating a belief in evolution. In an earth that is more that 6000 years old. Yet, that year, they nominated Romney, who is a pretty mainstream type repub. The real architect of Obamacare in fact!

We'll have to wait to see who gets the nomination. But in terms of this thread, there is something we voters and armchair politicos can do about it. Small thing, sure, but a thing nonetheless. And it would start by not finding faux outrage in bullshit (among both sides).