It's the wealthy and wealthy-ish (so like HN-tier) people of the boston-ny coastal areas who have no bigger problems than than hand wringing about some offshore

It's the wealthy and wealthy-ish (so like HN-tier) people of the boston-ny coastal areas who have no bigger problems than than hand wringing about some offshore windmills who are the locusts here. It just so happens that for this particular round the locusts have the head of the executive on their side. This is a long term ongoing debate that Trump basically walked into and picked the side that suited him for a few cheap political points. The battle lines were drawn long before he cared. The potential for resource (energy) extraction here is undeniable. That's why various parts of this area have been suggested for wind farms for so long. When the locusts have decimated the region and moved on and there is nobody left to fund the fight the resource extraction will happen. Because that's just the economically sensible thing to do. And without anyone to stand in the way sensible things tend to happen. In a sort of perverse "you are why the history books have the horrors they do" sort of irony, Trump is very much a continuation of the broad social trend wherein people in the US have less rights and their governments have more arbitrary power as the years go on. To ascribe the problem to a particular politician, as bad as said politician may (or may not) be is to deny that trend, which is a stupid thing to do. And just to be clear here, I am very much pro wind-farm and have been since before any of the current major political personalities were relevant.