Congress summoned Juul executives to testify on the e-cigarette company’s marketing practices in 2019. About a year later, the Trump administration announced a ban on most Juul pod flavors, and about a year after that, President Joe Biden’s FDA announced a total ban on Juul sales. Fast forward one…
Congress summoned Juul executives to testify on the e-cigarette company’s marketing practices in 2019. About a year later, the Trump administration announced a ban on most Juul pod flavors, and about a year after that, President Joe Biden’s FDA announced a total ban on Juul sales. Fast forward one more year to the present day, and the U.S. Consumer Product Commission wants to ban gas stoves. The seemingly unrelated measures are anything but.
Richard Trumka Jr., a man responsible for both the Juul investigations and the suggested gas stove ban, knows this. Safety advocacy is his family legacy. What started with a third-generation coal miner’s efforts to protect workers has, over the course of two generations, morphed into compulsory puritanism. The story of Trumka father and son is the inevitable arc of progressivism.
Like Trumka Sr.’s efforts in labor law, Trumka Jr. doggedly pursued Juul in the name of protecting people. The difference is in who is supposedly being protected. Coal miners are a real demographic, working an unforgiving job that regularly endangers their lives. They live in a certain region and have a certain culture. As a union leader, Trumka Sr. ostensibly answered to them.
In a Jan. 9 Bloomberg article, he suggested the CPSC would look to ban gas stoves. “This is a hidden hazard. … Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” he said. Finally, he had everyone’s attention. Centrists, conservatives, and libertarians reacted with concern and confusion, or, as the Washington Post would frame it, Republicans pounced. Liberals pretended both that this is a nonissue and that it has been an obvious issue all along.
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