When President Musk and yappy dog Trump are done, the country will be poorer and weaker. Granted.

But I’d like to point out that the country was also made worse and less hospitable for more than half the population by pervasive and unrestrained NIMBYism, which was mostly a PMC centrist-liberal movement. This has caused enormous harm to the United States and its future.

However, because the NIMBYs were and are seen to have their hearts in the right place it does not get counted among the grave errors of our age. And it really should.

They locked about half the population out of the housing market and reduced potential GDP 30-50%. And that’s a big fucking deal.