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Stop Blaming Conservatives For The Left’s Baby Bust

Conservatives are the ones still having babies.

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Conservatives are not at fault for leftists living like, well, leftists.

The grim realities of demographic collapse are becoming clear, even to some on the left. Naturally, they’re still trying to deflect blame onto conservatives. For example, prominent left-wing writer Matt Yglesias recently complained that “an interesting feature of conservatism is that the right is very interested in fertility, yet nobody criticizes Trump for neither trying nor succeeding in doing anything about it. Nor does anyone ever express any doubt about the ‘tweet charts while doing nothing’ strategy.”

This is false. Tim Carney, who literally wrote a book on this, commented that “an interesting thing about Matt is that he never reads conservatives and then opines boldly on what they don’t say.” Others, including conservative demographer Lyman Stone and my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Patrick Brown (who puts out an excellent weekly newsletter on family policy), chimed in with similar sentiments.

There are indeed conservatives who are working on and writing about family policy, and they are willing to criticize Republican politicians, including the president, when needed. But there is more here than one writer’s echo chamber. There are many divisions between right and left on family policy and fertility, but underlying them is the reality that........

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