Maintaining the roads and infrastructure associated with sprawl places a huge financial burden on cities that often can’t be supported by local taxes alone, not to mention the cost to individuals. Look at how much American consumer debt is tied up in cars. Definitely unMAGA. It also wastes a huge amount of land and isolates people as they move from work to home to their various other destinations, always sequestered away from others. Nothing is human sized, it’s car sized. People are welcome to live how they want, but they should also have to shoulder the cost of the negative externalities associated with their lifestyle. Of course, NIMBYism also often prevents denser development. It’s a vicious cycle. Here’s a screenshot from a video I took in Queens the other day - https://imgur.com/a/iShA4yV. No bike lane on this street, surrounded by pedestrians and in a walkable community (Kew Garden), yet, even in dense NYC, we’re prioritizing making enough room for this giant truck over humans. All these hardworking tax payers in Kew (who don’t drive) supporting the storage of this private property over the improvemt of their community. It seems quite backward to me.