Ann Coulter

Currently, the most embarrassing of the allegedly populist right-wing enthusiasms is the pro-natalist position. The idea is that family formation is good for society, so why not create government programs that encourage family formation? Sens. Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, The New York Times’ Ross Douthat, and “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance, among others, want to pay women to have children.