I say what follows with no joy, and as somberly as I am able.

The only lasting solutions that I can see for our structural problems lie in ignoring the currently defunct structures that brought us here. The next president will need to be a tyrant - cutting off from power any and all obstacles regardless of their protections under the current system.

Anything less than this will not be sufficient to begin addressing the root causes of our destruction, and we are out of time to solve these issues through any flavor of incrementalism.

I hate this conclusion. If it were 1985 and we hadn’t yet blown through our climate benchmarks I’d be more receptive to the strategies Longwell and others suggest. As it stands, the only viable paths forward involve dramatic action.