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By Rachel Bovard, First Things, Aug. 2, 2024
Rachel Bovard is vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute.
Three years ago, as a Senate candidate, JD Vance took aim at what he dubbed “the childless left” whose “rejection of the family” was undermining the country.
“Why have we let the Democrat party become controlled by people who don’t have children?” he asked. “Why is this just a normal fact of American life, that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?”
Those comments recently resurfaced, and Vance has doubled down, referring broadly to the “childless cat ladies” of the left.
Setting aside the political dust-up over tone policing and word choices, is Vance’s fundamental observation true? It is. However inartful the phrasing, his premise—that our country’s political power centers are increasingly being led by those without children—is correct. …
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