Top 2020 Democrats co-sponsor Ocasio-Cortez's bonkers Green New Deal plan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made a big splash Thursday after she rolled out the framework for a Green New Deal with Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. The plan, which calls for massive government intervention in the economy to bring America to "net-zero emissions" in 10 years, was introduced as a nonbinding resolution to state the intent of Congress to pass Green New Deal policies in the future.

This is not just the fever dream of Ocasio-Cortez. This plan is going mainstream in the Democratic Party, with no fewer than five 2020 presidential candidates co-sponsoring the resolution.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are also co-sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution. Sanders has not officially declared his candidacy for president but is widely expected to do so.

Additionally, 60 Democrats in the House of Representatives are backing the Green New Deal, according to the Washington Post, and four more Democratic senators who are not running for president (yet) as well.

I took a look at the plan earlier and others have had a chance to read it too. The reviews are in: The Green New Deal, which all of these Democrats support,  is NUTS.

"#GreenNewDeal calls for building out “highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.” Good luck Hawaii!

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) February 7, 2019

"Ban Cars: #GreenNewDeal would like to replace every “combustion-engine vehicle” — trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars — within ten years...

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) February 7, 2019

This is an actual line in the Green New Deal. https://t.co/HWybqIz9D9 pic.twitter.com/ou5jsu3qpM

— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019

HOW IS THIS DOCUMENT REAL. pic.twitter.com/ZUYu3cVQVB

— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019

And the plan to pay for it all?

Five of the top Democratic 2020 contenders are backing the Green New Deal. If any of them win the DNC nomination, this radical plan to overturn the American economy becomes a plank in the Democratic Party platform.

This is the big idea on the Left heading in to the 2020 presidential election. The question is, what's the big idea on the Right?

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