Friedersdorf thinks ending the Drug War is the best way to fix the problems that concern Douthat and Murray:
Santorum laments the staggering number of incarcerated Americans without noting that a single government policy explains why many of them are locked up. Neither absent fathers nor declining traditional values caused legislators to impose mandatory-minimum-sentencing laws on nonviolent drug crimes. But increasingly harsh penalties passed in a failed effort to win the War on Drugs have led to hundreds of thousands of men being imprisoned, countless kids left with absent fathers, and the supply of marriageable men depleted in neighborhoods where family breakdown is most dire.
(Chart from Timothy Taylor)
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