NYT: In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning

In Sunday’s NYT:

“People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren. I thought it was the conservative view that there should be some balance between income and outflow. When did this change?”

It takes a radical shift in the political conversation, I’ll tell you what, for me to say Ben Stein is talking sense. I wish I could hear more conservatives hearken back to pre-Goldwater ideology without draping their ideas in big-L Libertarianism. I know they’re out there — I know a few classic conservatives on campus here in Ann Arbor, for goodness sake! — but my impression is they’re being too polite, and in doing so being drowned out by the unruly social conservatives and Libertarians vying for control of the GOP. Speak up, Ben!