Problem is that the people who consume less than the average amount of carbon are generally located in cities and therefore already support liberal policies. You need to convince the conservative leaning suburbs, which are the hardest hit by a revenue neutral carbon tax because they have high incomes and don't live in high density areas.
It would incentivize local manufacturing by making it much more costly to use a globally-spanning supply chain. That would increase blue collar worker leverage. It's got a lot going for it, politically. The rich would experience quite a lot of inflation on travel and energy-intensive luxury goods, though, which wouldn't be offset for them.
