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Axios: A Second Donald Trump Term Would Empower Populists to Steamroll Experts

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CNN's Brian Stelter didn't write this, but he did share it, so I think it's a safe bet that he agrees with the premise. And that premise is that hurricanes have tested the limits of Donald Trump's "war on experts."

It's become a joke to read "according to experts" or "experts say" in a news story anymore. But Zachary Basu seems to think that a second Trump term would empower populists to steamroll mainstream "experts."

Have Helene and Milton been devastating storms? Of course. Are they the first time a powerful hurricane has made landfall? Of course not. But according to the experts, climate change has made storms more dangerous.

Basu writes:

A second Donald Trump presidency would usher in a new type of class warfare — empowering populists to steamroll mainstream experts on issues such as climate change, economics and public health.

Why it matters: This year's devastating hurricane season has exposed the perils of Trump's war on climate experts, who have long warned that human-caused global warming is exacerbating extreme weather.

Through warming ocean and air temperatures, climate change makes hurricanes like Helene and Milton more destructive — and more likely to rapidly intensify all the way through landfall.

The catastrophic back-to-back storms tore through the Southeast just weeks after climate scientists reported Earth's hottest summer on record.

Zoom in: Trump, who is potentially 23 days from winning back the White House, has sought to weaponize the Biden administration's hurricane response while still downplaying the existence of climate change.

He's called climate change a "hoax" and a "scam," railed against President Biden's clean energy policies, and urged Big Oil executives to fund his campaign in exchange for him slashing fossil fuel regulations.

That all sounds good to me. The experts said that all the coastal cities would be underwater by now. I was in middle school when Scholastic magazine warned about the coming global cooling. The experts told us the Earth was going to get colder and plunge us into a mini-Ice Age.

I personally welcome this new class warfare pitting populists against "mainstream experts."

The experts told us that inflation would be transitory and that the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent you from contracting the coronavirus, as would standing six feet apart.

They even set up a Disinformation Governance Board headed up by a woman who said the Hunter Biden laptop story was a "fairy tale" and that Trump had colluded with the Russians. She was the "Mary Poppins of Disinformation." In other words, the expert.

I have no idea why CNN brought Stelter back into the fold. Did they think his time away made him a more reliable source?

I hope the first thing Trump does in office is restart the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. And then does away with the whole "Inflation Reduction Act," which was just the Green New Deal under a popular name.

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