Matt Welch on Progressive Puritans

Look
around the country and you’ll find a strong correlation between
e-cigarette bans and progressivism, writes Matt Welch. Los Angeles
joined New York, Boston, and Chicago with its prohibition, and now
D.C. is threatening to get into the act with regulation from the
Food and Drug Administration. The same moralizing impulse is
leading to blue-city bans on everything from plastic bags to fried
chicken joints to bottled water. These are puritan progressives and
they will take the fun out of anything.

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