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New York City notwithstanding, there are signs that Democrats are starting to turn away from the race, gender and climate obsessions of the progressive left. Now along comes a cautionary tale about an outfit that tried to combine all of them under one roof. This bubbling cauldron of “resistance” may have done more harm to those cooking up the foul brew than it ever did to President Donald Trump. David A. Fahrenthold and Claire Brown report for the New York Times: The Sierra Club calls itself the “largest and most influential grass roots environmental organization in the country.” But it is in the middle of an implosion — left weakened, distracted and divided just as environmental protections are under assault by the Trump administration. The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit. If a
liberty-loving activist wanted to discredit such an organization, it would seem that a first step would be to suggest that the group was not really about the environment or any related science but simply a vehicle for a partisan and ideological agenda. Yet the organization itself seems to have launched a campaign to lead people to this very conclusion. The Timesfolk note: During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more… The club became one in a string of “resistance” groups from Mr. Trump’s first administration that arrived at
his second already exhausted from liberal infighting.
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