I think this is substantially true. Urbanists have no idea how much fun and freeing driving can be in rural areas. I used to love driving from Lake City out to the river, for instance.

About freedom, a larger point: both the left and right right are substantially anti-freedom, in their own ways. The left’s version of this wish to control is to attempt to take away things like cars, the ability to live where one pleases, the modern conveniences of life and other related degrowther baloney. They just dress it up in “good” reasons like “preventing climate change” and “saving the environment.” Whether any of their nonsense would do any of that is irrelevant. It just has to seem plausible enough to grant them control over you.

Both sides wish for this dominance, and both sides ram it in however they can.