From start to finish, Mr. Lord’s analysis and endpoint are superb. And true.
This is truly an excellent article - I’ve read about three great articles on FR this morning, so the day’s getting off to a wonderful start!
I was talking with some friends last night and one of them, who works in a college and who’s conservative by inclination but hates reading about politics or economics, said that everybody she worked with at the school was talking about the “ban on SUVs.” She thought it had already happened and was a done deal. I can’t imagine how this got out so fast and got accepted so quickly (particularly considering that it hasn’t happened or even been seriously proposed yet). But obviously, there are a lot of people - quite well educated people - out there who are already primed to accept major government interference in their lives and even seem to regard it as a good thing.
My friend was concerned because she was wondering what large families would drive if SUVs were “banned,” but as someone else said, she shouldn’t worry because the government would make sure there weren’t any more large families, either.