President Trump’s campaign has raised nearly half a million dollars in a matter of weeks selling plastic straws with “Trump” emblazed on each one. They fetch $15 for a package of 10 plastic straws, as the campaign markets them with the slogan: “Liberal paper straws don’t work.” That’s surely a high price tag for plastic straws, but the message is priceless.

For the past couple years, the Left has been pushing plastic straw bans in the name of “saving the planet,” suggesting that paper and other alternatives work well enough. A good number of people from both the Left and the Right have fallen hook, line, and sinker for their anti-plastic straw blather. An Ipsos/BuzzFeed public opinion poll from last year reported that 48% of those polled supported government bans: 56% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans.