What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate

This is a side note, but for a while I got really fascinated by the debate over nuclear power and technology, etc. It fascinates me that Americans are still very afraid of it (Three Mile Island). Yang is basically making the point that the country shouldn’t be, contradicting Warren who says she doesn’t want to build more nuclear plants.

People probably aren’t going to love the tone of Yang’s “move people to higher ground” plan, even if it’s actually necessary. This feeds into the idea that Yang is a “doomer” candidate. But he does say that nuclear has to be on the table.

Moderators are being tough on Warren tonight. This is the second proposal of hers they’ve described in terms that paint it as impractical. When talking about her wealth tax earlier, they said, “taxes of this magnitude would stifle growth and investment” and now on nuclear energy they said her goal of “net zero emissions by the year 2050 without utilizing nuclear energy” was “impossible.”