RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Jay Inslee Is Running For President — You Know, the Governor of Washington. And he’s a one-issue man:

Inslee says he has one priority: global warming. It’s not theoretical, or a cause just for tree huggers anymore. Putting off dealing with it for a year or two or kicking it to some new bipartisan commission won’t work, he says. He plans to focus on the threat that climate change poses to the environment and national security—the mega-storms and fires causing millions in damages, the weather changes that will cause mass migrations, the droughts that will devastate farmers in America and around the world.

As Jim Geraghty responds, “if Jay Inslee stumbles and never gets any traction, the environmental movement will have to grapple with the fact that despite all of their dire warnings about climate change, many Americans are comfortable prioritizing other issues and waiting for someone else to take action.”

And note this statistic from Geraghty: “Interestingly, environmentalism itself is less popular than it used to be — in 2018, only 42 percent of Americans self-identified as an environmentalist, when 78 percent did in 1991.”

That’s because the definition of environmentalism became much more radicalized beginning with Al Gore’s feverish adoption of the issue in 1989, before tacitly declaring Mission Accomplished by selling out to Big Oil in 2013. Everybody wants clean air and water; it’s a much smaller minority that wants to make life hell for middle and lower class Americans to achieve it.