Rod Dreher’s Law of Merited Impossibility states: “It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.”
With this formulation, the conservative writer was trying to capture the duplicitous hedge by which progressives advance their policy goals: we have no plans for radical social change but it would serve you right if we did.
The Welsh Parliament’s decision to silence Reform MS Joe Martin for his comments on demographic change ventures a new sub-section for Dreher’s law: “The thing that is not happening is such a good thing that you must not be allowed to talk about it.”
