“libertarian-leaning Washington, DC, think tank he founded in 2014. He and his colleagues there are trying to build support for the passage of an aggressive federal carbon tax, “
Libertarians supporting carbon taxes. Now, he’s redefining libertarian to include those that want more taxes and a totalitarian carbon tax. Sort like a century ago when the term liberal, which had previously meant a person who supported free markets, limited government and individual rights was transformed into a person that supports big government and government conferred “rights”.
That was after 1932.
Before 1932, almost every one was a classical liberal.
The culture always moves left. And resistance to that is difficult, if not downright impossible to maintain.
Anything that is not liberal, will sooner than later be captured or taken over by the Left.