The Sunrise Movement is good, actually

Solving the climate crisis requires bringing political reality in line with scientific reality—which is what Sunrise has done, and is still trying to do.

Matthew Yglesias, the high-profile former Vox journalist who recently decamped to start a Substack newsletter, made a very controversial argument about climate change on Twitter last week.

He said the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is being harmed by The Sunrise Movement: the group that popularized the Green New Deal alongside Rep. Alexandria O…