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Lee Zeldin at the EPA and Selling Environmentalism
from Trump's Cabinet | The Tim Dillon Show #417 · #417
5 min
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Tim covers Lee Zeldin's voting record against clean air/water bills as new EPA pick, then pivots into a broader argument that environmental protection burdens lower and middle class people disproportionately, and that RFK's approach of appealing to hunters and fishermen for clean rivers is a smarter sales pitch than moralizing.
- Lee Zeldin ran against Kathy Hochul and lost, but Tim's sure he's a good person.
- Zeldin voted against clean water legislation at least a dozen times and clean air legislation at least half a dozen times.
- You'd have to dig into what the Clean Air Act actually is before condemning someone for voting against it.
- Environmental policies like congestion pricing and gas price increases burden lower and middle-class people, not millionaires and billionaires.
- RFK pitched environmentalism to hunters and fishermen by asking if they wanted clean rivers and healthy animal populations instead of using divisive language like global warming.
- Tim explains why you can't protect the environment at the expense of people's immediate survival needs.
- Worrying about the environment is a luxury when you don't have food, clothes, or time to be a parent to your children.
- Everything in America has to be sold; you can't just tell people the environment matters without persuading them why it affects their lives.
- The modern Democratic Party functions like the Catholic Church, asking people to confess their environmental sins and seek absolution from leadership.
Lee ZeldinDemocratic PartyRFK JrKathy HochulLong Islandenvironmental protection