OPINION: The Bakshish Primary

The Democrats are trying to bribe the voters with the voters’ own money.

One of the strange tasks of conservative journalism is taking left-wing policy fantasies seriously—more seriously, in many cases, than do the Democrats and their allied party mix of salty nuts.

In many cases, you’ll get more substantive policy specifics in conservative critiques of progressive proposals than in the progressive proposals themselves. The Democrats took the so-called Green New Deal so lightly that they didn’t even bother to proofread their marketing material and nix the cow-fart jokes before...