[Robert Urbanek]

One accusation made during the debt ceiling showdown was that the Republican Freedom Caucus wanted the U.S. to default to create a recession that would politically damage the fortunes of the Biden Administration.

However, the right wing need not exercise legislative power to hobble President Joe Biden. They could, ironically, embrace a radical green agenda that would accomplish the same.

The neoliberal approach to climate change is that progress can be achieved entirely through technology, replacing bad energy with good energy.

The more radical approach is that a complete lifestyle change is required by consuming only the bare essentials needed for life and to forego all luxuries such as unnecessary electronics, new vehicles, eating out, and leisure travel. Such a monkish life, embraced by as little as 25 percent of the population, would plunge the nation into a major recession and doom the reelection chances of Biden.

The right wing is already part way there, boycotting companies for woke policies. But since most corporations embrace some woke aspects already, a general boycott would attack them too.