A decent metric of the extent to which the agenda of the Left has been accepted by the Right is a recent article in The Washington Times – where I once worked as an editorial writer and columnist in the Before Time.
It is a news article published the other day about the GOP-majority (just barely) House attempting to legislatively block the force-feeding (pate de foi gras goose-style) of battery-powered devices on a market that doesn’t want them by using regulations to force the automakers to build nothing else (more or less) by 2032 but beginning a lot sooner than that. The regulations demand compliance with gas mileage standards (set to rise to just shy of 50 MPG for the 2026 model year and going up from there) that cannot be complied with – thereby outlawing cars that aren’t battery powered devices without actually outlawing them.
It works similarly to the way exorbitant “licensing” fees are applied to the purchase of select-fire capable rifles. They are not technically illegal (well, at the federal level) to possess but in order to legally possess on, you must pay the federal government a sum of money that makes the buying of such a rifle untenable for most…
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