Here is a simple litmus test for T.A. Gardner: You assume that AOC is an idiot for promoting some of her ideas. As such, can we assume that tRump is also an idiot for promoting some of his wacky ideas?
Not at all. Your whole statement is false.
I don't "assume" AOC is an idiot, I state that she factually is. If one defines idiocy as doing something repeatedly that is known to be an expensive failure yet continuing to try it, AOC is an idiot.
Here are the five strategic goals of the NGD:
Achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers
This is to be met by "100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” AOC's office put out more details:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf
Nuclear is off the table. All coal and oil / gas use for energy generation are to end. Solar and wind are the preferred methods. This can be shown and proven both mathematically and in practice to be a costly failure of an energy plan. It is idiocy to continue to push for what clearly will not work, yet AOC does.
The second part of the above statement is political nonsense. It is nothing but rhetoric. It means nothing in measurable terms.
Create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States
Invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century
More political rhetoric that is meaningless. AOC has no concrete plan on how this will be done, and if Obama's attempts to go green are any indication, it won't happen at all in an implementation of the NGD. Again, AOC ignores the history of failure in green businesses, even when heavily subsidized by government.
Secure for all people of the United States for generations to come: clean air and water; climate and community resiliency; healthy food; access to nature; and a sustainable environment
Another meaningless piece of rhetoric. Some of the ideas espoused by the NGD won't even begin to make any difference here and most of the proposals are grossly expensive.
Promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (“frontline and vulnerable communities”)
What does this have to do with going "Green?" More idiocy in that it links Leftist calls for Socialism and Social and Economic Justice unrelated to environmentalism to environmentalism. She's an idiot.
Now, as to Trump, what "whacky ideas" do you mean here?