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candidate for Ohio J.D. Vance called for two things that, to anyone with their ear to the ground on family dynamics and voting patterns, sounded like an earthquake. First, he called for massive state support to help family formation. Second, he called for voting to be expanded to all Americans regardless of age—with the caveat that the vote of anyone under the age of 18 should be handed to the parents.
The other leg of Vance's platform—massive state support for family formation—provides long-term ballast. If it works, and causes marriages and birth rates to rise—and there isthe policy—the American demographic landscape would increasingly become dominated by Republican-voting households. The effects on the culture would likely be profound too. Lesthaeghe and Neidert's Second Demographic Reversal would go into sharp reverse and bring America"back to the future.
Although the GOP would have much to gain from an embrace of family policy, these proposals should not simply be seen as a political wedge that only benefits a particular political party. Nor should it be seen as just one policy choice among many available to politicians today. Rather, support for the family is the single best policy strategy available with respect to both the common good and the national interest.
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