Opinion: Tim Ryan is running for president. He may not be what you think.
By Paul Waldman and Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow April 4 at 3:38 PM If you’ve heard of Rep. Tim Ryan, it’s probably because he once challenged Nancy Pelosi to be the leader of House Democrats, saying the caucus needed to be led by someone from the kind of place where Donald Trump had found support.
In the typical media shorthand, moderate Democrats who say they can win this region are assumed to be extremely cautious on issues such as climate change and the proper scale of government intervention in the economy. After all, only snooty coastal elitists care about climate, and President Trump can cast a spell over the entire region by chanting about bringing back coal and manufacturing through deregulation.
“Trump talks a lot about China, but we have no national strategy on electric vehicles, on wind and solar,” Ryan said. “Right now, China dominates 40 percent of the electric vehicle market, they dominate 60 percent of the solar panel market. This campaign is going to be about the big idea that creates a national industrial policy” that says to China, “we’re gonna out-compete you.”
Ryan was asked about the future of the coal industry, which the president has vowed to bring roaring back — and which was supposedly key to his appeal in the region. “The future is in the new technologies,” Ryan said. “It’s time for us to say, ‘Look, we’re going to make sure that coal country is going to be plugged into the new economy and that we’re going to be creating jobs that are equivalent in wages and benefits to the coal jobs.
“There is a scam being run right now on farmers in America that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my career,” Ryan said, noting that big corporations have “concentrated so much power that farmers haven’t made money in five years.”
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