Unless we can envision a society in which the family takes social priority, the idea of a wide pronatalist coalition is implausible. That’s probably a good thing, even if it bodes poorly for politics.

Still, the push for a sort of bipartisan pronatalism is gaining initiative, encouraged largely by the Trump administration’s current policy proposals. The driving concept, the birthrate, has been present on the Right for some time, what with family policy often too life-coded for anyone else to adopt. From this set grows the Right’s own philosophical spread, wherein figures such as Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts and Tesla CEO Elon Musk ally under a shared agenda. More apprehensively, writers and researchers from the Left join in on wanting to promote fertility decline as a serious risk.