Environmentalist activists and others mentally allergic to the name Donald Trump are flipping out over a new tariff on imported solar panels. This move has fractured the solar industry, showing us the two different faces of the solar movement, if you want to call it that.

Last week, President Trump imposed a 30% tariff on China-made solar panels. Environmental groups began kicking and screaming, claiming the President was in bed with fossil fuel companies and this was going to kill 23,000 jobs. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, tweeted that the tariffs would “raise Americans’ electric bills and hurt our environment.” You might have thought he had just ordered The Purge. Even some Libertarians were up in arms, suggesting we are embarking on a trade war with China. This is, of course, the only real logical stance against this tariff, but I’m still not buying it.

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