The Next Crusade?

The Next Crusade?

Mickey Kaus, in The New Republic (May 7, 1990), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036,

More and more Democrats these days seem to be resuming an old war cry: Soak the rich! Soak the rich!
Kaus, an editor of the New Republic, says that the chant sends shivers down his spine. Not because he is a Republican, not (presumably) because he is rich, but be- cause a revival of the politics of redistribu- tion, which he calls Money Liberalism, "would condemn the Democrats to a futile and often i...

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