We can build successful political coalitions around climate policy when we give people something to fight for. If jobs and benefits are front and center, support for action will follow.

This resonates. I won't claim to be an economist, so I read arguments for and against carbon taxes and definitely see both perspectives and don't know which side is 'right.' But what I do know from careful observation is that any large-scale carbon pricing would require immense political capital to move along, even if it was ultimately defeated. When opponents can frame it as a tax, as coming after the little guy, and when there are sure to be unintended consequences, it's a huge mountain to climb and climate advocates have to ask themselves: is this the mountain worth dying on? Or are there other policy levers that can be pulled that might be comparably effective but have a much lower hurdle to overcome in terms of political feasibility.