One Billion Americans

One-line definition: Matt Yglesias’s argument (book of the same name) that the U.S. should roughly triple its population — largely through immigration — to sustain its standing and dynamism.

How sources describe it

• In the Great Softening research: “Increase immigration to 1b Americans — Matt [Yglesias].” It appears in the thread weighing whether America is in decline, alongside the idea that immigrants may be the most aspirational people and that great powers (Romans → British) average roughly 200 years.

Where it shows up

• The Hardening Of The Great Softening - Research

Related concepts

• Matt Yglesias — author of the One Billion Americans book and the source of the immigration-driven population argument.
• American Exceptionalism on Trial — frames the same question of whether America is in decline that the proposal responds to.
• The Hardening Of The Great Softening - Research — the research thread where the idea surfaces, alongside the great-powers-decline framing.