Hmm, you seem to be going all YAF-ish on us, Doug. Try this: Because Milken represented the antithesis of what a democracy is supposed to be. Despite all the Drexel Burnham agitprop about how Mike somehow represented the popularization of finance, secrecy and oligarchy were the very essence of MM.
Besides, if it's in the public interest, say, "to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others," it seems to me enlightened policy to savage an arch-capitalist from time to time to *discourage* some of the more egregious excess among his followers. And did Mike ever have groupies! In every way, the man had the biggest predator's balls around.
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